In His Name, the Most High

Dispatches

Announcements about our work — what we have built, what we are testing, and what we are asking for help with.

A quiet mosque courtyard at dusk: a single brass lantern lit on a low stone wall beside an open wooden door, a short clear path of pale stones leading to it, and through the doorway a calm room with a prayer timetable framed on the wall.

A Calmer Front Page

Our home page had grown long and busy, with the prayer times shown twice and the weekly majlis easy to scroll past. We rebuilt it around one question: what is happening today? And we added something people have asked for: a month of prayer times for any place, ready to print for a prayer room.

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The courtyard of a seminary at first light: a tall tiled iwan and a turquoise dome, a long still pool, a student walking toward the iwan, and a single star above.

The Front Door

IlmFlow has a home of its own. tpilmflow.com shows what we are building and why, how the tools fit together and how far each has come, in English, Farsi and Arabic from its first day.

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An old book lies open on a wooden stand in a shaded room, its two pages empty; a shaft of sunlight falls across them beside a brass magnifying glass, and an arched brick doorway opens onto a sunlit courtyard of tiled arches beneath a dome.

Nothing on the Page

The machine that reads our library's scanned pages was given a blank page from al-Ṭūsī's Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām, and wrote an essay about George Orwell's 1984. So we measured all 24,368 pages it has read, found every page like it, and changed the reader so that a page with nothing on it is never put in front of it again.

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A warm, photorealistic still life on an old walnut scholar's desk at night, lit by a single brass oil lamp with a glass chimney whose glow is the only light. At the centre stands a finely made wooden model of a traditional Persian Gulf sailing ship, a dhow: a curved teak hull, one raked mast, a furled cream canvas lateen sail, rope rigging and small brass fittings. Its open cargo hold is carefully packed with tiny leather-bound books and small rolled manuscripts tied with faded red cord, stowed neatly, like precious cargo. To the left of the ship, a vintage 1950s broadcast microphone in brass and dark walnut stands beside two small open reels of brown audio tape on brass-rimmed spools. To the right, an old Persian manuscript lies open with gold-illuminated margins, softly out of focus. Behind the desk, a pointed Persian arch with carved geometric plasterwork frames a window onto a calm, dark blue harbour at dusk, the water holding the last light, one distant lantern glowing on a stone quay.

Carried, Word for Word

Safina, the fourth of our IlmFlow tools, is open. It keeps the lectures, lessons and speeches that the scholars' own offices publish on their websites — exactly as published, with where each came from and when — beside daftar, fihrist and diwan.

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A warm, photorealistic still life on an old walnut scholar's desk at night, lit by a single brass oil lamp. At the centre, a thick leather-bound register lies closed, its cover tooled in gold with a geometric Persian border and a small blank brass plate.

Written, Found, and Kept

diwan, the third of our IlmFlow tools, is open. It keeps the written work behind our sessions exactly as it was written, every revision and who made each one, beside daftar, where the teaching material is written, and fihrist, where the sources are found.

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An old library card-catalogue drawer pulled open under warm lamplight, an ornate brass key resting across the index cards, an open Persian manuscript beside it.

A Catalogue, and One Key

Fihrist, our research toolkit, searches a library of Arabic and Persian books and tells you which book and which page — never a quote to copy. It now opens with the same sign-in as daftar, so one account is the key to every tool we build.

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Three pointed stone arches in deep shadow, opening onto an empty sunlit courtyard whose far walls carry further arches and niches; worn flagstones in the foreground.

In Your Language, From the Start

daftar — where the teaching material behind IlmFlow is written and reviewed — was in English. Asking scholars who study in Farsi and Arabic to work in English, while promising everyone else their own language, was the wrong way round. It is fixed.

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A courtyard at dusk: an open book on a wooden reading stand and two closed volumes beside a still pool, with a carved door standing open onto a warmly lamplit room of arches.

You Were Allowed to Ask

We are sending a student to the Hawza. Not a person, but a system built to learn how scholars think — no gatekeeping, no verdicts, just honest, fully sourced answers that point you back to the texts and back to your marjaʿ.

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