Engineer and founder Mohammed Abdul Kamran built My Amaal to prove faith technology can protect privacy and reject the attention economy.
-- Mohammed Abdul Kamran Introduces a Different Approach to Faith-Centered Technology
The modern app is built to keep you. It tracks, it notifies, it monetizes, and above all it competes for the next minute of your attention. Mohammed Abdul Kamran, an engineer at Amazon and the founder of the Islamic application My Amaal, has spent his career inside that industry — and built something designed to do the opposite.
My Amaal is engineered to help a person complete an act of worship and then put the phone down. It carries no advertising, and according to the company it does not track users or monetize their personal data. Its most sensitive feature, a search tool for Islamic supplications, is designed to run on the user's own device rather than send queries to a server. In a category crowded with tools that treat attention and data as the product, Kamran's insistence on the reverse has made his work stand out — and positioned him among a small number of technologists arguing, in shipped software, that ethical design and religious practice can share the same foundation.
A Question Raised by Survival
The philosophy has a personal origin. Kamran traces the project to a period when his own religious practice had lapsed and a single event forced a reckoning.
"There was a period when I barely prayed a single salah a day," he said, referring to the five daily Islamic prayers. "Everything changed when my wife and I survived an accident that nearly took our lives. That forced us to ask what we actually wanted our lives to stand for."
The answer, over time, took the shape of a product. As he and his wife rebuilt their worship habits, Kamran noticed that many existing Islamic apps assumed fluency — in terminology, in sources, in established practice — that newcomers and returning believers simply did not have. He set out to build something that met people where they were, and engineered it around trust rather than authority.
One App, Deliberately Restrained
My Amaal gathers the tools a practicing Muslim reaches for most into a single, private, offline-capable experience: prayer times based on location, daily adhkar, a digital tasbih, an offline Qur'an reader, a Qibla compass, reminders for Islamic occasions, and a dua search feature. (Adhkar are phrases of remembrance; tasbih is the repeated recitation of praise; a dua is a personal supplication.)
According to the company, several of these features work without an account, and the core set — prayer times, Qur'an content, adhkar, and dua search — functions fully offline, making the app dependable while traveling, in weak-signal areas, or in moments when a user simply wants fewer distractions.
What is notable is what Kamran chose to leave out. Where competitors race to add features, he has treated restraint as the point. "Privacy isn't a feature we advertise," he said. "It's an amanah — a sacred trust between us and our users. We will never have ads. We will never track users."
That conviction is backed by an engineering résumé built at scale. Alongside his current role at Amazon, Kamran's career includes stints at the high-growth technology companies CloudTrucks and Rippling — experience he has channeled into a domain where rigorous, privacy-minded engineering is uncommon.
Drawing the Line at Religious Authority
Kamran has been equally deliberate about what My Amaal will not do. The app does not issue religious rulings and does not hold itself out as a replacement for trained scholars.
"We're a librarian, not a mufti," he said. "We retrieve and present carefully sourced content, and we never issue religious rulings ourselves."
A mufti is a qualified Islamic scholar authorized to give formal interpretations on religious questions. By drawing that line — organizing knowledge without claiming authority over it — Kamran has set a standard of restraint that is not universal in the space. The company says its material is drawn from the Qur'an and Sunnah, the teachings and practices associated with the Prophet Muhammad, with references included where applicable, and it presents the app as a practical companion rather than a source of formal religious advice.
Early Signals
The approach has begun to find an audience. According to company-reported figures, My Amaal converted 44.3 percent of App Store views into downloads shortly after its iOS launch — a rate well above common App Store benchmarks. In a six-day beta, the company says 22 testers opened the app more than 300 times, logged over 100 prayers, and completed multiple adhkar sessions. Kamran adds that the project drew more than 20,000 impressions on LinkedIn with no paid promotion.
Kamran is careful not to overstate what the early numbers mean. He does not read them as evidence of mass adoption, but as a signal that people are coming back — and as a guide for where the product goes next.
Looking Ahead
As development continues, Kamran says My Amaal will remain focused on helping Muslims establish meaningful worship habits while maintaining strong privacy standards and authentic religious sourcing.
"Before asking users to pay for anything, a product must first earn a permanent place in their daily lives by being genuinely useful. Revenue should be the outcome of trust, not the objective that drives every decision," Kamran said.
By combining his engineering background with a renewed sense of purpose, Kamran says he hopes My Amaal will demonstrate that faith-centered technology can prioritize trust, simplicity, and meaningful daily practice without compromising user privacy.
About My Amaal
My Amaal is a privacy-focused Islamic worship application founded by Mohammed Abdul Kamran to help Muslims build consistent worship habits through accessible, authentic, and privacy-conscious technology. The application offers prayer times, adhkar, tasbih tools, dua discovery, an offline Qur'an reader, a Qibla compass, and Islamic occasion reminders without requiring an account or behavioral tracking. My Amaal is guided by a philosophy that technology should support faith through simplicity, trust, and responsible design.
Learn more through the My Amaal website, Instagram, LinkedIn, and the Apple App Store. Founder profiles are available on Instagram and LinkedIn. Media inquiries may be sent to kamran@myamaal.com.
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