The journal

Notes from the workshop.

Short, honest writing on prayer, focus, and craft — why Awwab exists, how we keep its Knowledge game authentic, and the privacy choices behind every screen.

How to keep your five daily prayers when your phone fights back

Consistency in prayer is rarely a problem of belief — it's a problem of design. Anchors, tiny restarts, a phone that pauses instead of pulls: a practical, gentle system for becoming steady.

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Walking the Hijra, thirteen days at a time

The Cave, the Crossing, Madinah. Why Awwab begins with a 13-day journey shaped like the Prophetic Hijra — and what an ancient migration teaches anyone returning to prayer.

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Twenty-five prophets, one scene at a time

How we retold the lives of all 25 prophets of the Qur'an as 638 story cards — scene by scene, anchored to the ayah, with nothing added that the sources don't say.

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Why we built Awwab

It started with a simple, uncomfortable question: what if the apps pulling you away from prayer simply waited their turn? Here is the idea behind the Shield — and the mercy we wanted at the heart of it.

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Authentic by default

Every hadith ṣaḥīḥ or ḥasan, every scientific claim tied to a real peer-reviewed paper, and contested points left out rather than softened. How the Knowledge & Trivia game is sourced.

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Private by design

No servers, no accounts, no tracking. On iPhone your data lives in your own iCloud; on Android it never leaves the device. Here is what that means in practice — and why we chose it.

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