A letter from the founder — Fuaad Nuur
Salam — I'm Fuaad.
If you've ever deleted Muzz in pure frustration, or said no to yet another suggestion from an auntie, you know why Zawji exists.
I'm Somali-Swedish, I live in Stockholm, and I've been there myself: Muzz wanted payment before I could get a reply, the aunties suggested the wrong people, and Instagram DMs were just chaos. The sisters and brothers around me couldn't find a halal way to marry either.
None of it worked.
I'm not really a developer — I sat down and learned, and on I opened Zawji: halal matchmaking, built from Stockholm.
Three things hold with me. Finding each other is free; chat opens with the same Premium for sisters and brothers, and whoever wants to can pay to open it for both. Your photos stay hidden until you choose, and your profile is never publicly searchable: only logged-in, reviewed members see it, and your name is never shown. And the wali comes in when you're ready for sittning and nikah — not when someone else decides.
I do everything myself, at least four hours a day: reviewing unclear profiles and answering reports.
The first Zawji couple married on — barely three months after launch.
If you recognized yourself at the start of this letter, you're the person I built Zawji for. And if something feels wrong, you write to me directly.
May Allah make your search easy.
