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Her father looked at the Gaddafi regime, made a moral decision to stand against it, and lost everything as a result. The family had to leave Libya. And Yasmin Elhady grew up in America as an asylum seeker carrying all of that uncertainty with her.

Attorney, comedian, and co-host of @Hulu's Muslim Matchmaker, @YasminElhahahady does not keep this part of her story quiet. It is the foundation of who she became. When you are displaced, when the ground keeps shifting, when you feel out of place in every room you walk into, you reach for something to anchor you. For her that anchor was comedy.

She watched Saturday Night Live every Saturday without fail. She ran the skits by herself in corners of rooms, memorizing the rhythms and the timing, finding something in the laughter that felt like solid ground when everything else felt uncertain. It was comforting in the way that only something truly personal can be.

And then the kids at school started noticing her from the corner of their eye. She was mortified. And then she realized they were not laughing at her. They were laughing with her. Something that started as a private coping mechanism in the middle of displacement became the thing that connected her to other people.

What Allah uses to shape us often begins as the thing we reach for just to survive.

What did you reach for during your most uncertain period and what did it end up building in you?

#Muslimi #YasminElhady #MuslimWomen #RevertStory #IslamAndIdentity

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She has faced a lot of closed doors, a lot of nos, and a lot of rejection. And she is honest that she is tired from it. But she also says it made her who she is.

Attorney, comedian, and co-host of @Hulu's Muslim Matchmaker, @YasminElhahahady reflects on what breaking through barriers as a visible Muslim woman in spaces that were not designed for her actually costs. She does not romanticize it. She would have preferred less rejection. The exhaustion is real. And naming that honestly takes more courage than pretending every obstacle was secretly a blessing in disguise.

But she also holds something alongside that honesty. Rejection made her creative. Every closed door forced a new question. How do I get through the maze another way? How do I make it funny? How do I make it endearing, accessible, joyful? The constraints produced something that a smooth path probably would not have.

And then she lands on the most important thing. The key is not resilience in the toughened, hardened sense. The key is staying soft. Keeping the heart open. Remaining vulnerable even after everything that has tried to close it down. Because bitterness is the other possible outcome of repeated rejection and it destroys far more than the rejection itself ever did.

Staying soft after being hurt repeatedly is one of the hardest and most underrated forms of strength.

Has rejection made you more creative or has it made you more guarded?

#Muslimi #YasminElhady #MuslimWomen #Resilience #Hulu

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The word sadaqah comes from the same root as truth. And your smile, according to Yasmin Elhady, is the truth of yourself expressed outward.

@WGNetwork sits down with @YasminElhahaHady, attorney, comedian, and co-host of @Hulu’s Muslim Matchmaker, as she unpacks something hiding in plain sight in the Arabic language. The trilateral root of sadaqah, sadaq, means truth. It is the same root that gives the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) the title As-Saddiq, the truthful one. And remarkably, the same root exists in Hebrew and Aramaic with the same meaning. Truth cuts through everything. It always has.

So when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) told us that a smile is sadaqah, he was connecting the act of smiling to truth itself. Your smile is an expression of what is real in you. An outward reflection of the goodness that lives inside.

And then the neuroscience catches up with what Islam already knew. Smiling floods the brain with endorphins. Even when you do not feel happy, the physical act of smiling begins to produce the feeling of happiness. You are not faking it. You are activating something real.

And it does not stop with you. When you smile at someone, it releases endorphins in them too. It softens them. It creates a moment of genuine connection that costs nothing and gives everything.

One smile. An act of truth. An act of charity. A chain reaction of goodness that starts with you.

When did you last give someone a smile that you genuinely meant?

#Muslimi #YasminElhady #Sadaqah #IslamicReminder #SmileIsCharity

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Ibadah is not something you do for an hour on Friday. It is everything you are doing right now.

@WGNetwork, co-founder of Muslimi, entrepreneur, and humanitarian leader, addresses one of the most limiting misconceptions Muslims carry about worship. The word ibadah gets narrowed down to prayer, fasting, and the masjid. And in doing so, an enormous portion of a Muslim's life gets mentally cordoned off from their relationship with Allah.

But marriage is ibadah. You are a husband or a wife twenty-four hours a day. Parenting is ibadah. You are a mother or a father around the clock. Your work, your charity, your relationships, every decision you make and every role you carry is an opportunity for worship if you approach it with the right connection to Allah.

Waleed describes this as a cycle of life and ibadah. When you find a way to weave that connection through everything, when you stop separating your spiritual life from your daily life and start seeing them as one continuous act of devotion, something shifts. Allah will test you through your children, your spouse, your work, and your community. But every one of those tests is also a path back toward Him.

And when you find that connection and hold onto it, he says simply, there is no turning back. You will always win at the end.

Which part of your daily life have you been keeping separate from your relationship with Allah?

#Muslimi #WaleedGabr #Ibadah #IslamicReminder #LifeAsWorship

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A handout gets someone through today. A hand up changes what tomorrow looks like.

@WGNetwork, co-founder of Muslimi, entrepreneur, and humanitarian leader, speaks about the philosophy behind how Muslimi approaches charitable work and community building. The platform is not just a vehicle for Muslimi's own projects. It is open to other vetted organizations and causes, because what they built was never meant to serve only themselves.

Every project listed on the platform has been through a vetting process. And other organizations are given the opportunity to put their projects there too, because the mission is bigger than any single entity. This is for the ummah. All of it.

Waleed describes this as a responsibility that comes with the skills Allah placed in them. Not a reason to build an empire but a reason to build something that elevates everyone around it. If you have been given the ability to create a platform, the question is not just what you can do with it for yourself. It is how many other people you can lift through it.

That distinction between a handout and a hand up runs through everything. Temporary relief matters. But sustainable empowerment, helping causes grow, giving organizations access to audiences and resources they could not reach alone, is what creates lasting change.

Whatever Allah puts in your hands is not just for you.

Is the platform, the skill, or the resource you have been given being used to lift others alongside yourself?

#Muslimi #WaleedGabr #HumanitarianWork #HandUp #IslamicPhilanthropy

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They know when they leave their house they are not guaranteed to come back. They go anyway.

Waleed Gabr (@WGNetwork), co-founder of Muslimi, entrepreneur, and humanitarian leader, speaks about what it actually means to do this work with a directness that leaves no room for comfortable distance. The team has been setting up projects and tents in Al-Fashir, one of the most dangerous active conflict zones in the world right now. When asked whether it is safe for their partners on the ground, the answer is honest. There is nothing safe in war zones. But somebody has to do the job.

That somebody is not an abstraction. It is people who made a decision rooted in something deeper than risk assessment. This is Allah's work. And Allah gave every person a God-given talent to carry out responsibilities on behalf of the ummah. For those on the ground in Al-Fashir, that talent and that responsibility brought them there.

When you trust Muslimi with your donation, Waleed is clear about what that trust means in practice. They go out and find the best people. They find the collaborators. They make sure the work gets done and gets done right. Not from behind a desk. In the field. In the places where the need is greatest and the conditions are hardest.

The people on the other end of your sadaqah are being reached by people who left home not knowing if they would return.

Does knowing that change how you think about where your donation goes?

#Muslimi #WaleedGabr #HumanitarianWork #AlFashir #SadaqahJariyah

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⚡ ❤️ @mohammedassaf89 🎶 @mercymusictour first Stop in #toronto hosted by @deyaelayyan

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Blessed, what an evening!

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I never put out a product I would not buy myself. That is the standard. Full stop.

Dr. @Mohamad.Sawwaf, co-founder of @Manzil.ca, shares a principle that sounds simple and is surprisingly rare in practice. Before any product goes to market, he asks himself one question. Would I buy this? If the answer is no, the product does not go out. Not yet. The next question becomes what it would take to get it there.

This is not just good business practice. For a Muslim entrepreneur building financial products for the ummah, it is an ethical obligation. You cannot recommend something to your community that you would not trust with your own money. You cannot structure a product that you know is not quite right and put it in front of people who are relying on your integrity.

Dr. Sawwaf describes becoming the first customer as both a quality control mechanism and an act of accountability. We are what we eat. And what you build reflects what you actually believe about the people you are building it for.

He also makes space for the community to shape the product. Customer feedback that challenges the current structure is not a problem. It is information. And if the improvement can be made, it will be made.

That combination of personal integrity and genuine openness to correction is what Muslim-led businesses in the halal finance space need to embody.

Would you buy the product or service you are currently selling to others?

#Muslimi #DrMohamadSawwaf #Manzil #HalalFinance #MuslimEntrepreneur

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One of the quiet miracles of Hajj is the people.

You don’t plan it. You don’t seek it out. But somewhere along the way, you end up with a community, built in days, that feels like it’s been there your whole life.

Alhamdulillah for every person that was a part of this journey. For the conversations, the laughter, the tears, the shared moments of frustration and patience, and so much more that words won’t fully capture.

May Allah accept our Hajj and the Hajj of all the hujjaj. May He return everyone safely to their loved ones. May we all be invited to the Haramain again and again. Amin.

#Hajj2026 #Hajj1447

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