Khidma.live: An AI-Powered Islamic Guidance Platform.

WHAT IS KHIDMA

Khidma empowers Muslims globally to strengthen their faith with authentic, personalized,

private Islamic guidance. A private, audio-first platform, it connects users with verified Islamic

scholars and certified Muslim psychologists — with an AI layer that holds them between those

conversations. Khidma sits at the intersection of faith, guidance, and mental wellbeing: faith

tech.

THE PROBLEM

For most Muslims today, there is no private access to a qualified Islamic scholar — no

confidential way to ask how Islam actually applies to their life, their marriage, their mind.

Every existing door leads to the wrong answer. The local imam is often inaccessible to women,

and when he is, the answer is frequently "have sabr" — sometimes from someone who prays

beside her husband. Family talks; sensitive things do not stay quiet. A secular therapist doesn't

know what nikah means and may advise leaving a marriage the person is trying to save. Online

fatwa pages answer a general question, not theirs, written by someone they cannot verify.

So people do nothing — until doing nothing stops being survivable. 65% of Khidma's users have

never spoken to a professional about anything in their life. Khidma is not their first choice of

help. It is their last remaining one.

And the core insight, from Khidma's own intake data: 75% of users say they need both —

Islamic guidance and emotional support. Not one or the other. Almost nowhere else offers both

from people who understand each other's domain. That gap is what Khidma occupies.

THE STORY

Khidma started in January 2026 as a WhatsApp Q&A — scholars answering real questions,

privately, one message at a time.

The demand proved itself immediately. So Khidma built a secure platform with three ways in:

Ask. A free Q&A where anyone can ask a question privately. General questions are answered

immediately. Anything personal, painful, or requiring a ruling goes to a verified scholar — who

replies in his own voice, as a 5-minute personal audio answer.

Speak. Private audio sessions with Islamic scholars and certified Muslim psychologists — to

strengthen both faith and mind. Audio only. No video, no faces, no waiting room.

Begin a path. The Nafs Assessment captures what a user is carrying — in their own words, with

follow-up questions generated from what they actually wrote — and matches them to specific

practitioners, with the reason each one fits. Not a directory. A recommendation they can

understand.

Khidma also built an AI assistant — deliberately limited. It handles basic questions and

references. When it detects that a question is personal, it doesn't attempt to answer: it redirects

to a human scholar. That boundary is by design.

For deeper situations, structured packages — premarital foundation, relationship healing, OCD

and waswasa — where scholars and psychologists work together across multiple sessions to

provide complete care.

Every feature shipped because users asked for it first.

PRIVACY IS THE PRODUCT

For Khidma's users, privacy isn't a feature — it's the precondition. They are contemplating

telling a stranger something they haven't told their own mother.

So: audio-only sessions. Session audio and transcripts deleted within 24 hours. Nothing social,

nothing public, nothing that could surface in a shared household. And users can clear

everything they have ever written or asked, in one place, whenever they want — because the

ability to leave without a trace is part of what makes it safe to arrive.

METRICS (Jan-July 2026)

Counselling sessions delivered: 200+

Questions answered by scholars: 3,000+

Repeat rate: 31.8%

First-time help-seekers: 65%

Monthly recurring revenue(MRR): $2,500

Stage Pre-seed, bootstrapped, revenue-generating

COMING UP — AI + EXPERT-LED JOURNEYS

Khidma is launching guided journeys — structured paths designed by real scholars and

psychologists, personalized to each user's situation. An ayah chosen for their circumstance.

Journal prompts across the week. Islamic actionables between sessions.

Deliberately not gamified: no streaks, no scores, no "40% complete at healing." At the end of a

week, users get a mirror, not a meter — their week reflected back in plain words, without turning

what they didn't do into a deficit.

The journey is scaffolding between human sessions. When it ends, it points back toward a

person.

WHAT KHIDMA IS CAREFUL NOT TO CLAIM

Khidma is confident about the mechanism: credentialed scholars, qualified Muslim clinicians,

real privacy, and both dimensions of a person's problem addressed together. Users say the

combination is what they couldn't find anywhere else.

Khidma does not claim clinical outcomes. It hasn't yet earned that claim, and won't make it until

the evidence exists to support it. Building that evidence honestly is the next phase of the work.

FOUNDERS

ADeeb Sayeed — Founder & CEO

Repeat founder with cross-sector experience in gaming, Web3, and marketplaces — driving

zero-to-one builds and go-to-market.

Khizer Khalid — Co-founder & COO

Student of Islamic knowledge with strong connections to the global scholar network of Makkah

and Madinah graduates.

EXPERTS ON PLATFORM

Sheikh Abdur Rehman Haran Makki — Educated at Dar Al Hadith Al Khayriyyah and

Kulliyatul Haram, Makkah. 7+ years at the Fatwa Centre, Masjid al-Haram.

Shaikh Noor ul Hasan Madani — Senior scholar, graduate of Madinah University, 20+ years of

experience. Expertise in Tafseer, Aqeedah, Fiqh, Hadeeth, Seerah, and Tarbiyah.

Zulekha Shakoor Rajani — M.Sc. Psychology (Cambridge Muslim College). 9+ years of

clinical, educational, and faith-integrated counselling experience at institutions including Mind &

Brain Hospital and Al-Balagh Academy.

QUOTES

"Faith-based AI is the most dangerous place to get AI wrong. An AI will confidently give you a

ruling it invented — and someone will build their life on it. That's why ours doesn't answer

personal questions. It finds the reference, and hands the person to a scholar."

— Adeeb Sayeed, Founder & CEO

"Access to scholars was never meant to be a privilege. For fourteen centuries, a Muslim with a

question could sit with someone qualified to answer it. Khidma is simply restoring that — with

the adab and privacy the deen deserves."

— Khizer Khalid, Co-founder & COO

"For centuries, a Muslim in difficulty could reach a scholar. That access has quietly disappeared

for most of the ummah. Khidma is returning something that was always ours."

— Sheikh Abdur Rehman Haran Makki, Verified Islamic Scholar

"After a major breach of trust, we were both in deep pain, but this platform helped us choose

healing over resentment. Through dedicated faith-based sessions, I became more spiritually

conscious while my spouse regained inner peace. We’ve since restored harmony in our home

and established a beautiful spiritual routine together."— Khidma user