Mohammed Faisal
Founder & CEO
Faisal started and led the Nikah Sunnah community more than five years ago, and has been part of facilitating hundreds of marriages since.
The story of Nikah Sunnah
We don't help you date. We help you marry.
For over five years, we've quietly helped practising Muslims find righteous, lasting marriages, by the grace of Allah. No swiping, no endless browsing — just a respectful, intentional way to find the spouse Allah has written for you, with your family beside you.
- marriages
- 600+marriages
- years
- 5+years
- of members
- Thousandsof members
- served
- India & the Gulfserved
Why we exist
Our mission is simple: to help practising Muslims find righteous spouses and build lasting marriages — through a process rooted in the Sunnah, guarded by modesty, and supported by family.
It is said that marriage completes half of one's faith. We take the other half seriously — helping you get there with sincerity and care.
Our Story
Before the app, there was a community.
Nikah Sunnah did not begin as an app. It began as a small effort, more than five years ago, to help practising Muslims find one another for marriage.
What started quietly on Telegram grew. Word spread between families and friends. Brothers and sisters across India and the Middle East joined, all looking for the same thing: a spouse who would help them in their deen.
Along the way, we learned something no product roadmap could have taught us: what truly helps Muslims marry, and what quietly gets in the way.
How it began
It started on Telegram
A small effort, more than five years ago, to help practising Muslims find one another for marriage — a few introductions, and a lot of duas.
Word spread
A real community grew
Families and friends passed it on. Brothers and sisters across India and the Middle East joined, all seeking the same thing: a spouse who would help them in their deen.
By the grace of Allah
600+ marriages
Thousands of members. Hundreds of thousands of introductions. More than six hundred marriages brought about — families joined, homes begun, and a great deal of good, we pray, recorded with Allah.
What came next
We built the platform
We took everything we'd learned — every safeguard, every hard lesson about what truly helps Muslims marry — and built it into a platform, to reach the many more who need it.
The problem we saw
Somewhere along the way, matrimonial apps started behaving like dating apps.
The longer we ran the community, the clearer the problem became. Many platforms meant for marriage had quietly drifted toward the habits of dating apps:
Endless browsing, with no real intention behind it
Swipe culture that reduced people to a photo and a split-second judgment
Superficial decisions, made on looks rather than character and deen
Little accountability, and little protection for the women and families involved
And underneath it all, very little alignment with how Islam guides us toward marriage
For families, this was painful. Parents wanted to help their children marry, but didn't trust the spaces available to them. For practising brothers and sisters, taking part often meant compromising the very values they cared most about. We felt this was a problem worth solving properly.
Why we built Nikah Sunnah
Our Telegram community worked — but every introduction passed through human hands, and that care simply couldn't reach everyone who needed it. So we made a decision.
We are not a tech startup that wandered into marriage. We are a marriage initiative that spent years solving this problem first — and only then built the technology to carry it further.
What makes us different
Built for marriage, not for scrolling.
The features you won't find — and the ones you will.
| Typical matrimonial / dating apps | Nikah Sunnah |
|---|---|
| Swiping and endless browsing | Intentional, purposeful introductions |
| Photos first, character later | Deen and character first |
| Open, unmonitored chatting | Respectful, guarded communication |
| Families left out | Families and guardians welcomed in |
| Anyone can join | Serious, practising, verified members |
| Engagement is the goal | Marriage is the goal |
Faith-first, by design
Every step follows the spirit of the Sunnah, not the habits of dating apps.
No swiping, ever
We replaced mindless browsing with serious, intention-led introductions.
Built for families
Guardians and parents aren't an afterthought; they're part of the process.
Modesty protected
Communication is respectful and guarded, so dignity is never the price of taking part.
Quality over quantity
Fewer, better introductions beat a thousand empty matches.
Accountability, not anonymity
Real people, real intentions, real consequences for misuse.
Our principles & values
The values we answer to.
These aren't slogans. They're the rules we hold ourselves to, before Allah.
Deen before everything
If a feature serves growth but not your deen, we won't build it.
Dignity and modesty
Every person here is someone's child, sibling, and future spouse. We treat them that way.
Honesty over hype
We'd rather tell you the truth slowly than sell you something quickly.
Safety and privacy
Your information and your reputation are an amanah with us.
Families included
Marriage is rarely a private affair in Islam, and we honour that.
Accountability before Allah
We see this work as worship, and we will answer for how we do it.
Trust over scale-at-any-cost
We grow only as fast as we can stay trustworthy.
Our vision
A world where marrying well is easy for every Muslim.
We dream of a day when finding a righteous spouse is no longer one of the hardest things a young Muslim has to do — when a brother or sister, anywhere, can begin this search knowing they'll be treated with respect, guided with honesty, and supported by their family every step of the way.
We want to see more homes built on taqwa, more children raised in love and deen, and more of the kind of marriages that bring barakah to entire families. That's the future we're working toward — slowly, sincerely, and InshaAllah, with your duas.
Ameen.
Our impact so far
Five years. Six hundred marriages. Alhamdulillah.
We don't measure success in downloads or daily active users. We measure it in nikahs — in families joined, and in the homes that began here, Alhamdulillah.
- 600+
- marriages facilitated
- 5+
- years serving the community
- Thousands
- of members across India & the Gulf
- Hundreds of thousands
- of introductions made
Figures to date, by the grace of Allah.
More than a platform
More than a platform — a community.
Long before we were a platform, we were a community — and that hasn't changed. Members support one another. Families connect. Marriage, in Islam, was never meant to be a lonely, transactional thing — it happens within a community that cares.
That's the spirit we've carried from our earliest days on Telegram into everything we build now.
People who married through us often come back to help others do the same.
For families
Built with your parents in mind — not left out of the picture.
We know that for many families, the idea of an online matrimonial platform brings worry — especially when it comes to daughters. We built Nikah Sunnah to put those worries to rest.
Our goal is simple: that a parent can look at how their son or daughter is searching for marriage, and feel at peace — not anxious.
A platform a parent can feel at ease with
- Guardian / wali involvement supported
- Respectful, guarded communication — no open chatting free-for-all
- Privacy and modesty protected by design
- Serious, practising, verified members
- Built by people who share your values
Meet the founders
The people behind Nikah Sunnah.
Not a faceless company — a small team that has personally helped Muslims marry.
Mohammad Saim
Co-Founder & COO
Saim keeps the day-to-day of Nikah Sunnah running — the systems, the safeguards, and the care that members feel.
Mohammed Afrid
Co-Founder & CTO
Afrid leads the technology, turning years of hard-won matchmaking experience into a platform you can trust.
A message from our founder
Why this matters to me.
Assalamu alaikum,
When we started this, we weren't thinking about building a company. We were just trying to help people get married — brothers and sisters who, like all of us, wanted a spouse to share their deen and their life with.
Over the years, I've seen how hard this search can be, and how much it can test a person's patience and faith. I've also seen the joy when Allah finally brings two people together, and the families that grow from it. There is nothing quite like it.
We built Nikah Sunnah because too many people were being let down by spaces that didn't share their values. I wanted there to be one place — built by people who actually understand — where a Muslim could search for marriage without leaving their deen at the door.
This work is an amanah to us. We won't always be perfect, but we promise to be sincere.
May Allah make your search easy and your marriage blessed.
Mohammed Faisal
Founder, Nikah Sunnah
Honest answers
Honest answers to fair questions.
No — and we mean that firmly. We're a faith-first matrimonial platform built for one purpose: marriage. There's no swiping, no casual browsing, and no place for anything that contradicts our values.
Most apps are built to keep you scrolling. We're built to help you marry — with intentional introductions, guarded communication, family involvement, and a community that's been doing this for over five years.
Yes. Everything — from how introductions are made to how people communicate — is designed to respect the guidance of the Sunnah, modesty, and the role of families. We continue to seek knowledge and improve, and we welcome respectful feedback from people of knowledge.
Absolutely — we encourage it. In Islam, marriage is a family matter, and our platform is built to include guardians and families rather than leave them out.
We take privacy seriously, especially for sisters. Communication is respectful and guarded, profiles are handled with care, and we work to prevent misuse. Your information is an amanah with us.
That's the whole point. Nikah Sunnah is for practising Muslims who are genuinely ready to marry — not for casual browsing.
Yes, Alhamdulillah. We began more than five years ago as a Telegram community and have helped facilitate over 600 marriages since. The platform is the next step in that journey.
Yes. Creating your profile, browsing, and searching with the core filters are all free, and many members use the platform fully for free. A Premium plan adds extra features if you want them.
It's part of who we are, and the experience from it shapes everything here. The platform simply lets us serve many more people, with better tools and safeguards.
Create your profile, tell us what you're looking for, and begin your search — with intention, and InshaAllah, with barakah.
Still have a question?
If we haven't answered it, we'd love to hear from you.
Begin your search, with intention.
If you're ready to look for a spouse in a way that honours your deen, your dignity, and your family, we'd be honoured to walk this part of the journey with you. May Allah bless your search and grant you a spouse who is the coolness of your eyes.
Free to join · Built on Islamic values · Trusted by 600+ married couples