Why Riwaq exists, who builds it, and where it is made.
Assalamu Alaikum. I’m Atif Jaffery, a Muslim system architect and a member of the Triangle-area Islamic community in North Carolina. I have spent my career building enterprise systems on major cloud platforms.
What I kept seeing in our masajid was different: a Zakat register in Google Sheets, membership in an Excel file on one volunteer’s laptop, Janazah details in a WhatsApp group, and hifz progress in a notebook. Everything worked, and nothing joined up. Ask who is owed a follow-up or how last year’s Zakat was distributed, and someone spends an evening rebuilding the answer.
Riwaq is built for that work: one system that understands nisab and the eight asnaf, carries a Janazah from the first phone call to the follow-up next month, tracks hifz by Surah and Juz, and still handles the hall bookings, the payroll and the board pack.
Riwaq (رواق) — the arcaded colonnade that surrounds a masjid’s courtyard. In the spirit of the early mosque, where companions gathered for prayer, learning, and community affairs, Riwaq is built to help today’s masajid organize that same sacred work with clarity and care.
Riwaq is one system for the whole of a masjid's work — 57 modules covering Zakat distribution across the eight Quranic asnaf, Janazah coordination from the first phone call to the follow-up next month, Hifz progress by Surah and Juz, and the ordinary running of a building: hall bookings, staff, volunteers, expenses and the board pack.
It is built for organisations that generic nonprofit tools were never shaped around. A Zakat register is not a donations table. A Janazah is not a calendar event. A hifz student is not a course enrolment. Those differences are the whole reason Riwaq exists.
See every moduleServing a community is an amanah. Software that handles Zakat and Janazah inherits some of that trust, and these are the commitments that follow from it.
Donors may choose to cover fees at checkout. If they decline, the masjid receives the full gift less the card fee and we take nothing. No percentage is skimmed from Zakat, ever — the money a community gives is not our revenue model.
Every module on this site is labelled with the plan that carries it, taken straight from the platform rather than written for the brochure. If something is not ready, we would rather tell you before you sign than after.
Your Zakat committee has its own approval steps and your board wants its report in its own format. We shape Riwaq around how a community already works, and we support the whole picture — including the parts that are not our software.
Ramadan, a Zakat cycle close, the week you buried three people and still had to open the school on Sunday. Show us that month and we will walk you through how Riwaq would have carried it.