Company · Shafaq Pty Ltd

About Shafaq

The operating system for Muslim life

What is Shafaq?

Shafaq — شفق — is the reddish glow that lingers in the sky after the sun sets. In Islamic jurisprudence, the fading of the shafaq marks the beginning of Isha time — the threshold between the last light of day and the night. The name reflects what this platform is for: a companion for Muslims navigating the space between the demands of the world and the obligations of the deen, built for those who take both seriously.

Shafaq brings together the tools a Muslim needs to manage their deen and their life: prayer times, zakat calculation, Islamic estate planning, spiritual self-accounting, and sadaqah jariyah planning, all in one place, built with care and scholarly awareness.

Why We Built This

The existing tools for Muslim life are scattered, inconsistent, and often built without Islamic scholarly grounding. Zakat calculators that ignore nisab methodology differences between madhabs. Prayer apps with no consideration of calculation method. Estate planning tools that know nothing of Quranic inheritance rules.

Shafaq is an attempt to build something better: a single, coherent platform that takes Islamic scholarship seriously and treats the user's deen as something worth building thoughtfully around.

Who We Are

Shafaq is operated by Shafaq Pty Ltd, an Australian Proprietary Limited company registered under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). We are a bootstrapped, independent company, not funded by advertisers or outside investors. Our only obligation is to our users.

We are based in Australia, with a target market spanning Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Our Principles

Shafaq is built on a few non-negotiable commitments: we will never sell your data, we will never gamify your worship, we will never approximate or invent Islamic rulings, and we will always be transparent about where scholarly disagreement exists. Content that touches on fiqh is developed with madhab-awareness across the four major schools.

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