Author: Amina Mirza

With 250+ law firms onboarded, 25,000+ transactions facilitated and a newly launched consumer mobile app, the Malaysian LegalTech company is expanding from law-firm software into a broader legal-services ecosystem. For decades, much of the legal industry has been built around expertise that technology cannot easily replace. Simplifi.my is betting that almost everything surrounding that expertise can still be improved. The Malaysian LegalTech company is building an AI-powered platform designed to digitise the operational side of legal services while making it easier for businesses and individuals to connect with lawyers. Its platform brings together case management, document workflows, client communication, e-consultation,…

Qaf Islamic AI has crossed 25,000 users as Abdellatif Abdelfattah and his team attempt something far more difficult than building another chatbot: making thousands of Islamic books searchable through artificial intelligence without allowing the technology to present itself as a replacement for scholars. Artificial intelligence has made it possible to ask increasingly complex questions and receive polished answers within seconds. For most technology companies, the challenge is making those answers faster, more accurate and less expensive to generate. But when AI is applied to Islamic knowledge, the stakes become considerably higher. A fabricated hadith, an incorrectly attributed statement, or a…

The Malaysian entrepreneur turned years of frustration with property and legal transactions into a platform now used by hundreds of law firms. Mohammad Hafiz Hasan did not begin his career as a software engineer, nor did he grow up surrounded by entrepreneurs or technology founders. He grew up as the fifth of seven siblings in a family where both of his parents had no formal education and did not complete primary school. Hafiz would go on to become the first member of his family to attend university, graduating with First Class Honours in Finance from Universiti Teknologi MARA before later…

Amin Aaser once struggled to show his Muslim identity. Through Noor Kids, he is now building the “Sesame Street” for Muslim children—a global education platform the company says served nearly 1.7 million families in 2024.

Mustafa Khan left accounting to build Draper with Sakib Ahmed. The agency now works with more than 50 founders and executives and says its clients have generated over 350 million LinkedIn views.

Sami Sabeeh spent eight years watching busy Muslims abandon every lecture and book he recommended. So the former software engineer built MyDeen — a three-minute-lesson app that is quietly posting engagement figures most consumer education startups never see. The pattern always looked the same. Someone would approach Sami Sabeeh — a student of Islamic knowledge who had taught in his local community and online for eight years — with a question that actually mattered to them. How do you reconcile evolution with the Islamic account of human origins? He would send them a lecture, a book, a series. Weeks later…

Where Financial Inclusion Meets Agriculture When policymakers discuss financial inclusion, the conversation almost always revolves around banking access, digital payments, and microfinance. Billions of dollars have been invested globally to connect underserved populations to the formal financial system. Yet for Mujtaba Khalid, Co-Founder and CEO of Bagh-e, those efforts have often overlooked a more fundamental question: What happens after someone gains access to finance? After spending more than fourteen years working in Islamic finance across multiple jurisdictions, Mujtaba began to notice a recurring pattern. Governments, regulators, financial institutions, NGOs, and development agencies were making remarkable progress in expanding access to…

After moving from Dubai to Dallas, Sheriff found it surprisingly difficult to discover meaningful Muslim events and stay connected to community life in a new city. The events existed, but discovery was fragmented. Organizations were doing important work, but they were often relying on scattered systems to reach people and manage operations. That frustration became the beginning of Qariyb. A Founder Built At The Intersection Of Community And Systems Before launching Qariyb, Sheriff spent years in change management, learning design, and technology strategy, including work at Oracle Health and Accenture across the United States and the Middle East. Across healthcare…

Every two minutes, somewhere in the world, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. Not because the world does not know how to save her. But because too often, the care does not reach her in time. For Isra Chaker, that reality is not just heartbreaking. It is unacceptable. Through Every Pregnancy, Chaker is building a maternal and newborn health movement focused on one urgent mission: helping mothers and babies survive pregnancy, birth, and the earliest days of life. Since the launch of the For Mama campaign in 2024, Every Pregnancy has mobilized nearly $130 million for…

For Mohammed Yousuf, disability inclusion is not an abstract mission. It is personal. Born in India, Yousuf became a polio survivor at a very young age. Growing up with a disability in an environment where accessibility was extremely limited shaped nearly every part of his early life. Education, mobility, opportunity, and dignity were not always easily accessible—not because of a lack of ability, but because the systems around him were not designed to include people like him. Those experiences could have become barriers. Instead, they became the foundation for his life’s work. Today, as the founder of EquallyAble Foundation, Mohammed…