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Founder of IslamicKnot

Mohanned Farahat

Senior full-stack engineer. Also founder of MinglyLink and HexTints.

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Last updated · IslamicKnot is our own service · Other platforms' facts checked · How we review

Mohanned Farahat founded IslamicKnot, a wali-first Muslim marriage site operated by MinglyLink LTD, and leads its product and engineering. He is a senior full-stack engineer with more than seven years' experience, mostly for companies in the US and Germany, and he also founded MinglyLink and HexTints. He holds a first-class degree in accounting from the University of Greenwich, took coding bootcamps alongside his studies, and has always worked in tech rather than accounting.

Why he built IslamicKnot

Two things about Muslim marriage apps led him to build it: who you talk to first, and how you are charged.

Who you talk to first

Most Muslim marriage apps begin with a private chat between two strangers and bring the family in later, if at all. In Islam the search for a spouse runs through the family, so IslamicKnot puts that step first: a man's first contact is with a woman's wali, and a revert sister with no Muslim wali is introduced in a conversation supervised by our team. How it works, step by step.

How you are charged

Of the seven platforms in the table below, IslamicKnot is the only one with no subscription. The other six all sell plans that renew automatically.

A subscription can give a man access to more women. But a man looking for a wife isn't looking for more women. He is looking for one, so all that extra access is worth less than it sounds. Mohanned also didn't want a business that earns more the longer someone stays single: a subscription keeps billing until you cancel it, whether or not you contacted anyone that month.

So browsing is free, listing a profile costs nothing, and the person who asks to contact a family pays US$5 per family contact (US$3–4 each in packs), only when a profile fits. Nothing renews, there is nothing to cancel, and you never pay twice for the same profile. Three contacts cost US$12, less than one month on Pure Matrimony or Half Our Deen, or one week of Muslima Gold. IslamicKnot runs no ads and sells no data.

To be fair to the others: if you want to talk to many people, a subscription can cost less, and Muzz and Salams are free to match and chat. IslamicKnot is for someone who would rather pay a small amount to reach one family.

Show the table: renewal and price on all seven, with sources
Renewal and price on the seven platforms we compare
PlatformRenews automaticallyPrice
MuzzYes: Gold “will then automatically renew at the end of the subscription period unless you cancel it beforehand”1Gold $9.99–$41.99 on the US App Store, weekly to annual plans2
SalamsYes: “all subscriptions automatically renew unless they are cancelled before their renewal date”3$4.99–$34.99 in-app purchases on the US App Store (Gold $19.99–$34.99)4
Pure MatrimonyYes: “Paid subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each billing period unless cancelled”; add-ons “do not auto-renew”5,6US App Store: 1 month $13.99–$19.99, 12 months $99.997
MuslimaYes: “the subscription is set to automatically renew for the same period as your initial membership unless you disable this feature”8US App Store: Gold $19.99 (1 week) to $154.99 (12 months)9
SingleMuslimYes: “All our Gold Membership packages are recurring subscriptions”; cancelling needs “28 days cancellation notification”10,11UK App Store: £29.99 (1 month), £59.99 (6 months), £119.99 (12 months)12
Half Our DeenYes: the subscription “will be automatically extended for successive renewal periods of the same duration”13$19 a month, $39 a quarter or $84 a year14
IslamicKnot (ours)Nothing renews15US$5 per family contact, or US$12 for 3 and US$15 for 5, paid once.16
  1. muzz.com/us/en/help/gold/why-was-i-charged-upfront-for-my-muzz-gold-subscription
  2. apps.apple.com/us/app/muzz-where-muslims-marry/id969997496
  3. salams-app.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/33997641125275-Cancel-Your-Subscription
  4. apps.apple.com/us/app/salams-halal-muslim-marriage/id965359176
  5. purematrimony.com/terms-and-conditions
  6. purematrimony.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb/articles/38397367436945-Do-add-on-purchases-auto-renew-or-are-they-one-time-payments-only
  7. apps.apple.com/us/app/pure-matrimony/id1132189906
  8. support.muslima.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042693613-How-do-I-cancel-my-auto-re-billing
  9. apps.apple.com/us/app/muslima-halal-muslim-dating/id1580680952
  10. web.archive.org/web/20260117042715/https://singlemuslim.com/pages/helpandsupport/detail/howmuchisagoldmembership/Membership%20Packages
  11. web.archive.org/web/20251213192943/https://singlemuslim.com/pages/helpandsupport/detail/HowdoIcancelmyGoldmembership/Membership%20Packages
  12. apps.apple.com/gb/app/singlemuslim/id1116597910
  13. halfourdeen.com/terms
  14. halfourdeen.com/faq
  15. islamicknot.com/blog/is-islamicknot-legit
  16. islamicknot.com/pricing

Checked against each platform's own pages and store listings, on the date at the top of this page. Plans and prices change; the platform's own page is the final word.

All seven side by side, on private chat, the wali, photos and price · What Muslim marriage apps cost

Experience

  1. Founder, IslamicKnot

    2026 – present

    A wali-first Muslim marriage site, where a man's first contact is with a woman's family.

  2. Founder, MinglyLink

    2025 – present

    A link-in-bio platform for creators, with a built-in shop, booking, email collection and analytics. Its company, MinglyLink LTD (England and Wales, no. 16484762), also operates IslamicKnot.

  3. Founder, HexTints

    2025 – present

    A free colour tool: tints and shades from any hex code, with a colour library, picker, contrast checker and converters.

  4. Senior Full Stack Engineer, MomentScience

    Jul 2023 – present · Full-time · Remote, Austin, Texas

    A platform for offers and rewards around checkout. REST APIs in NestJS and TypeScript, PostgreSQL with Prisma, scheduled analytics jobs, event listeners and SvelteKit front ends.

  5. Software Engineer, Preava

    Feb 2022 – Jul 2023 · Contract · Remote, Essex, Vermont

    Email security. Mainly front-end work: its Microsoft Outlook add-in in React and TypeScript and its Chrome extension in Vue.js, with two months building gRPC APIs in Go and MongoDB.

  6. Full Stack Engineer, Psychological AI (formerly 100Worte Sprachanalyse)

    Apr 2021 – Jun 2022 · Full-time, then part-time from Feb 2022 · Remote, Heilbronn, Germany

    REST APIs in Node.js and TypeScript with MongoDB, and the React front ends that use them: a Chrome extension, an Outlook add-in and a web app.

  7. Elixir Developer, Upland Software

    Sep 2019 – Apr 2021 · Full-time · Remote, Austin, Texas

    REST APIs in Elixir and Phoenix for its mobile messaging platform, with PostgreSQL schemas, unit tests and scheduled jobs.

  8. MERN Stack Developer, qpix

    Jul 2020 – Nov 2020 · Part-time · Remote, Cairo, Egypt

    GraphQL APIs in Node.js, TypeScript and Apollo for Clevershop, a private CMS serving mobile and web applications.

More detail on his LinkedIn profile.

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts in Accounting, First Class Honours

    University of Greenwich · 2015 – 2019

  • Bachelor of Arts in Accounting

    October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA) · 2015 – 2019

The company: MinglyLink LTD on Companies House · About IslamicKnot · info@mingly.link

Articles by Mohanned Farahat

The articles he signs cover finding a spouse the halal way, the role of the wali, nikah and mahr, guidance for revert sisters, and how Muslim marriage apps and sites compare. Comparison posts in English, German, French and Dutch carry the date their facts were checked, and each one says that IslamicKnot is our own service.

He is an engineer, not a scholar. IslamicKnot is a matrimonial platform, not a fatwa body: for a ruling on your own situation, ask a scholar you trust.