Qaswa Ventures
A masjid and a market.
Qaswa Ventures is the business arm of Qaswa House. We build to earn, and we earn so Qaswa House can keep serving the Qommunity.
Qaswa Ventures
Qaswa Ventures is the business arm of Qaswa House. We build to earn, and we earn so Qaswa House can keep serving the Qommunity.
How Qaswa pays its way
From day one, we chose not to rely on public fundraising. We run Qaswa as a business: we offer services people value, charge fairly for them, and manage our cash flow carefully.
Generous people do give, out of the kindness of their hearts, and we’re grateful for every gift. But we don’t go looking for it. Instead, we build ventures.
We believe Islamic institutions must build their own economic independence, so they stay resilient and keep serving through lean years and good ones.
The Madinah model
When the Prophet ﷺ arrived in Madinah, he built a masjid, and soon after, a market. The two grew up side by side.
The market gave the ummah the means to stand on its own feet. The masjid gave the market its conscience.
That’s the model we follow: worship and work, side by side, each keeping the other in check.
The madrasah is our lab
Every weekend, more than 300 students come through our doors. That makes our madrasah a living lab. We try new ways of teaching, watch what children actually enjoy and remember, and keep what works.
Some of what we learnt was too good to keep within our own walls. So we built it into apps.
What we’ve built
A Qur’an app that grows a garden as you go.
getshajar.com ↗
For memorising and revising the Qur’an, with Hifzy, an AI shaykh that checks your recitation.
hifz.day ↗More to come.
Past ventures
Our café was our first venture. Every venture teaches us something, and the lessons from Qoffee & Dates live on in what we build next.