A home for enduring good deeds.

The name comes from al-baqiyat as-salihat, the enduring good deeds. It is not a slogan we chose and then justified. It is the argument itself, and the easiest way to explain what this organisation is for is simply to explain its own name.

A well is sadaqah jariyah until the water table drops. A masjid is sadaqah jariyah until the roof goes. Code is sadaqah jariyah that gets cheaper to run every year and reaches the next person for free. Buruja teaches someone to pray at two in the morning in Tallinn, then teaches someone else in Toronto ten minutes later, at no extra cost.

That is what we build, and that is what your money keeps alive.

Barakah is the word for it: divine goodness attached to a thing, so that a little of it goes further than it has any right to. A well dug once waters a village for a century.

It changes what we measure. Hustle asks how fast a thing can grow. We ask how long it can last, and how many people it reaches after we have stopped paying attention to it.

• We give the whole thing away, permanently. Not free while we grow. Free as the design. That forecloses every business model we might otherwise have had, which is exactly the point.
• We plant more than we announce. There is no roadmap here, because a roadmap is a promise about dates. There is The List: gaps we can see and cannot yet fill. When someone carries one, we build it, and it stays free.
• Nothing here should need us. Any one of these projects could be retired and the association would be unaffected. That is deliberate. Work that depends on one person is not sadaqah jariyah. It is a hobby with good intentions.

The intention is on this page. The enforcement is on the transparency page, where we write down what we will not do.

For the idea that barakah is something you can build a culture around, rather than something that merely happens to you, we are indebted to Mohammed Faris, The Barakah Effect.

Rafi Mohammad writes the code and most of the words.

Born in India, lives in Tallinn. He builds software for a living, through his own company in Estonia, and most of what he has shipped has nothing to do with any of this.

Baqiyah is the one he does for nothing. No salary, no invoices, no client work touching it. He is on the board because somebody has to sign the papers.

Farhan Mohamed Ali is a co-founder, based in Sweden.

Anonymous fundraising is a fair thing to be suspicious of. If you want to know who is asking, that is who.

Minbar, Buruja and Salattid are not the point, and none of them is the reason this association exists. They are what it has made so far. If one of them is ever retired, Baqiyah is unaffected, and the seventh project will not need a rebrand.

What runs through all three is smaller and more specific than a mission statement. Each one delivers into a calendar the person already opens. Buruja puts a verse there. Salattid puts the prayer times there. Minbar puts Friday there.

No profit is distributed to any member. The costs, the position on zakat, and the list of things we will not do are on the transparency page.