بِسْمِ اللهِ وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ وَلَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ
.Upholding your values. Protecting your faith
What we do and how we do it
Cincinnati Masjid and Foundation
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We build for hearts: structure, backing, and ruthless clarity — but our “returns” are sound creed, living Sunnah, and purified souls.
We operate as two independent yet deeply synergistic entities: a Masjid that gathers hearts, and a Foundation that sends them.
The Masjid: where we gather
The Masjid is the beating heart: the place of Jumu‘ah, jama‘ah, adhkar, janazah, and daily presence with Allah — the public well where the community drinks.
Its mandate is simple and high: sound khutbahs, beautiful congregational prayer, open doors, and a climate of Sunnah, dignity, and mercy that anyone can walk into.
The Masjid is where people hear the call, taste tranquility, and see Islam lived in real time.
The Foundation: where we build and send
The Foundation is the engine: it identifies, designs, funds, and supports programs, initiatives, institutions, and individuals that extend that Masjid climate into every part of life.
It backs scholars, teachers, volunteers, projects, and partner institutions whose work is aligned with Ahl al‑Sunnah, tazkiyah, and measurable impact on hearts, families, and communities.
The Foundation is where ideas are vetted, pilots are run, teams are trained, and serious capital — financial, intellectual, and human — is deployed.
How they work together
- The Masjid surfaces needs, people, and opportunities; the Foundation turns them into structured initiatives with clear design, governance, and support.
- The Masjid gives us a living anchor; the Foundation gives us the scale and discipline to move from “good khutbahs” to durable change in lives and institutions.
Two entities, one mission: a community where worship is correct, hearts are purified, and the light of Sunnah is carried by people, programs, and institutions that can stand on their own feet.
What follows is the foundation's “business model”
Who we serve (Customer Segments)
We serve:
Seekers whose hearts are restless: Muslims who feel the poverty of “content” Islam and crave the depth of the lives they read about in Quran and Sunnah.
Leaders and institutions: imams, teachers, institutes, and boards who know they must build on sound creed, character, and craft — but lack a systematic, replicable model.
We do not chase “everyone”; we choose those willing to be re‑ordered by revelation, not merely entertained by it.
The value we create (Value Proposition)
Our promise: to turn scattered piety and fragmented programs into a coherent path of knowledge + practice + character, grounded in Ahl al‑Sunnah and the great imams of the path.
We translate the insights of our deen — “knowledge that is an imam which leads to righteous actions” — into concrete curricula, cohorts, and labs of practice.
We de‑risk tazkiyah: no free‑floating spirituality, no speculative metaphysics; only what Qur’an, Sunnah, and Ahl al‑Sunnah agreed is “beneficial knowledge” that produces khushu‘ and taqwa.
What we actually do (Key Activities)
Our core activities for hearts and institutions:
Design programs: modular tracks in creed, worship, character, identity, happiness, and leadership that unite knowledge, practice, and inner work.
Build and back teams: pairing sound volunteers and believers to deliver, not just speak.
Incubate initiatives: small pilots in communities, tested and iterated before scaling — just as a canvas demands: build, measure, learn.
Underneath all of it is the maxim of: knowledge that is not acted upon becomes a burden and a cause of ruin — so every service we build is forced to answer: “How will this increase taqwa and obedience in behavior?”
How we choose what to start, fund, or partner (Initiative Filter)
We use a Sunnah‑anchored “investment,” guided by a tazkiyah‑inflected canvas:
Orthodoxy filter: Is the initiative clearly within Ahl al‑Sunnah in creed, worship, and manhaj? Any doubt here is a veto.
Heart‑impact filter: Does it strengthen humility, khushu‘, and action — or only argument and profile? The first knowledge lifted is humility; we refuse to fund that lifting.
Leverage filter: Will this create teachers, not just attendees; institutions, not just events; habits, not just memories?
Team filter: Is there a truthful, coachable, mission‑aligned team that treats knowledge as worship and service, not as a brand?
If an idea fails any of these, it does not ship — regardless of how “viral” or “fundable” it looks.
How we work with partners (Key Partners & Relationships)
We treat institutions, boards, imams, and all those we serve with as long‑term partners, not one‑off “khutbahs” "khatiras" and "duros":
With scholars: we protect their time, amplify their beneficial knowledge, and shield them from being turned into content factories; their role is to be imams who lead to righteous actions, not victims or hostages to unlearned boards’ whims, but true leaders — not employees of desire.
With institutions: we help them clarify their own canvas — who they serve, what value they create, how they sustain — and we co‑build, rather than parachute in a prefab solution.
Relationships are built on the same principle our scholars taught about knowledge: sincerity, truthfulness, and constancy in hardship and ease — not transaction, flattery, and abandonment when things get hard.
The engine under the hood (Key Resources & Cost Structure)
Our key resources are not “IP” but:
A living network of laymen believers, scholars and practitioners anchored in Qur’an, Sunnah, and the path of the early generations.
Codified frameworks that translate classical tazkiyah and fiqh of the heart into modern program architecture.
Our main “costs” are time in careful design, and the opportunity cost of saying “no” to shallow reach so we can say “yes” to deep change.
How we sustain and scale (Revenue Streams & Channels)
We sustain the work through a mix consistent with amanah:
Philanthropic capital that understands its “return” as transformed people and institutions, not dashboards.
100% Volunteer structure, 100% dunya-incentive free initiatives structured to protect access for those most in need and to avoid turning the deen into a commodity.
Our primary channels are mostly physical, with a very careful digitalization approach: circles of knowledge, cohorts, retreats, mentoring — because our righteous ancestors taught that knowledge leaves when humility and living teachers leave.
Our operating creed (Culture & Non‑negotiables)
Our internal culture is taken straight from the imams, written in plain speech:
Knowledge must lead to action, or it is “useless” in the sense warned: a cause of argument, pride, and fragmentation.
We measure success by hearts softened, wrongs righted, obligations fulfilled, worship beautified — not by followers, views, or fundraising totals.
We honor difference in temperament, talent, and background, but we do not negotiate on creed, Sunnah, or adab.
In short: our “business model” is to invest capital — financial, intellectual, and spiritual — into people and institutions that can carry the light of Ahl al‑Sunnah and tazkiyah forward, with knowledge that leads, actions that follow, and hearts that bow only to Allah.
Cincinnati Masjid and Foundation
Upholding your values. Protecting your faith.
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