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• Minhaj (Muslim World League app) 2025 App Websites, apps, games and devices

  An app and digital platform of the Muslim World League, built with the Elm company and launched in Mecca on 27 November 2025 after the Islamic Fiqh Council approved the idea in its resolution 23 of 13 Shawwal 1445 AH; it gathers the mushaf, prayer times, qibla, adhkar, religious consultations, courses, zakat and inheritance calculators and virtual communities, in seven languages, and addresses Muslims in minority countries in particular.

• Tajdar-e-Haram (Atif Aslam, Coke Studio 2015) 2015 Song Music and nasheed

  The Pakistani singer Atif Aslam's rendition of the qawwali Tajdar-e-Haram, in praise of the Prophet, on the first episode of Coke Studio Pakistan's eighth season, released on 15 August 2015 as a tribute to the Sabri Brothers' classic performance; the first Pakistani music video to pass 100 million views on YouTube.

• I Believe (Irfan Makki album) 2011 Album Music and nasheed

  The Canadian singer-songwriter Irfan Makki's second album, released by Awakening on 28 July 2011 with thirteen tracks, among them 'I Believe' with Maher Zain, 'Palestine' and the Urdu 'Lab Pae Aati'; its opening song, 'Waiting for the Call', became the subject of an internet hoax attributing it to Michael Jackson, which Makki denied in 2016.

• Kun Faya Kun (Rockstar, 2011) 2011 Song Music and nasheed

  A qawwali composed by A. R. Rahman for the 2011 Hindi film Rockstar and dedicated to the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya, sung by Rahman with Javed Ali, Mohit Chauhan and the Nizami Bandhu to lyrics by Irshad Kamil; written for the scene in which the hero takes refuge at the Nizamuddin Dargah in Delhi among the qawwals, it won a Mirchi Music Award as a song representing the Sufi tradition.

• Thank You Allah 2009 Album Music and nasheed

  Maher Zain's debut studio album, released by Awakening Records in November 2009 with thirteen songs and two bonus tracks, mainly in English with versions in Arabic, French, Turkish, Urdu, Malay and Indonesian; it was certified multi-platinum in Malaysia and Indonesia, and songs such as 'Insha Allah' and 'Ya Nabi Salam Alayka' spread worldwide online.

• Darulifta-Deoband.com 2007 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  A bilingual (Urdu and English) fatwa website run by the Online Fatwa Department of Darul Uloom Deoband, launched in 2007 after the department was set up in 2005; it held some thirty thousand selected fatwas in 2016, and in January 2022 India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights recommended blocking it; it was blocked on 7 February 2022.

• Dunya (Nazeel Azami album) 2006 Album Music and nasheed

  The English nasheed singer Nazeel Azami's debut album, released by Awakening on 1 September 2006 with ten songs in English, Arabic, Urdu and Bengali; its songs and recitals reflect on personal experiences and on life as a 'seeker' aspiring to be at one with the world of God, joining hamd, naat and folk music.

• Jalwa-e-Janan 2005 Album Music and nasheed

  The first religious and spiritual album of the former Pakistani pop singer Junaid Jamshed, recorded in 2005 at QTV and released by Heera Stereo, with naats and supplications in Urdu and Pashto to poetry by Iqbal, Aziz al-Hasan Ghouri and Taqi Usmani; its best-known naat is 'Muhammad Ka Roza Qareeb Aaraha Hai'.

• Khwaja Mere Khwaja 2005 Song Music and nasheed

  A Sufi song A. R. Rahman composed in 2005 for Mu'in al-Din Chishti, after fifteen years of visits to his shrine at Ajmer, and sang himself to lyrics by Kashif; the director Ashutosh Gowariker chose it for the 2008 film Jodhaa Akbar, for a scene in which Akbar sees a spiritual light as he watches the singers and dancers.

• My Ummah 2005 Album Music and nasheed

  Sami Yusuf's second studio album, released by Awakening on 6 July 2005 in a music version and a percussion version, sung in English, Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Urdu; its best-known songs include 'Hasbi Rabbi' and 'Mother', it marked his turn to Western instrumentation, and its sales are reported at between five and eight million copies.

• Dil Ki Baat (Junaid Jamshed album) 2002 Album Music and nasheed

  The Pakistani singer Junaid Jamshed's last pop album before he left the genre for religious reasons and turned to naat, released on Sony BMG with thirteen songs; the article dates it 2002 and Wikidata 2001.

• Dust to Gold (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album) 2000 Album Music and nasheed

  A qawwali album by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, recorded in 1997 with his ensemble in traditional form and released posthumously by Real World in 2000, with four long pieces, among them 'Khawaja tum hi ho' and 'Noor-e-khuda hai husn-e-sarapa rasool'; critics heard a balance of improvisational freedom and control, though his voice showed strain.

• Us Rah Par 1999 Album Music and nasheed

  The Pakistani pop singer Junaid Jamshed's second solo album, released in 1999 on Sony BMG after Vital Signs paused, continuing his work with the writer Shoaib Mansoor, and a critical and commercial success; The Express Tribune wrote in 2017 that its title song foreshadowed his later turn from pop to naat.

• Islamway 1998 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  A multilingual Islamic website known for its audio: sermons, lessons, recitations and nasheeds, with fatwas, articles and books; it was begun by two people in late 1998 as 'The Islamway Radio', and says its team has grown to more than 150 volunteers and that it holds 96,648 sermons and lessons by 794 scholars and preachers and 35,917 recitations by 351 reciters (the site's figures, 2023).

• Star Rise 1997 Album Music and nasheed

  A remix album from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook's Mustt Mustt and Night Song, released by Real World in 1997 after Khan's death that August and dedicated to his memory; its remixers include Talvin Singh, Asian Dub Foundation and Nitin Sawhney.

• IslamQA (Islam Question & Answer) 1996 Platform Websites, apps, games and devices

  An online fatwa and question-and-answer website begun by Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid in 1996 and run under his general supervision, counted among the first online fatwa services; it answers questions from Muslims and others in sixteen languages on the method of Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a, as it describes itself, and was blocked in Saudi Arabia in 2010 after fatwas were reserved to the Council of Senior Scholars.

• Intoxicated Spirit 1996 Album Music and nasheed

  A live album by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party, released in 1996 on Shanachie and recorded in Pakistan with voices, tabla and harmonium, which he supported with a North American tour; it was nominated for the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album, and critics heard in it qawwali without the Western trappings.

• Night Song (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album) 1996 Album Music and nasheed

  A joint album of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook, recorded at Real World Studios in 1995 and released on 20 February 1996, his last album on the label in his lifetime; it joins qawwali vocals to Brook's ambient production and Senegalese musicians, reached number 4 on Billboard's world albums chart and was nominated for the 1997 Grammy for Best World Music Album.

• The Day, the Night, the Dawn, the Dusk 1991 Album Music and nasheed

  A qawwali album by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on Shanachie, with three long pieces of his own, among them 'Halka Halka Suroor' and 'Mera Piya Ghar Aaya'; the article dates it 1991 and Wikidata 1990, and The Washington Post wrote that its lyrics embrace both Sufi mysticism and matters of the heart.

• Mustt Mustt 1990 Album Music and nasheed

  The first qawwali fusion album of the Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with the Canadian guitarist and producer Michael Brook, at Peter Gabriel's suggestion, released by Real World on 12 November 1990; Massive Attack's remix of the title song became the first Urdu song to reach the British charts, and the label claims sales of over 600,000 copies outside the Indian subcontinent.

• Darussalam Publishers 1986 Publisher Books and publishers

  An international Islamic publishing and distribution house founded in 1986 by the Mecca-based Pakistani scholar Abdul Malik Mujahid, which grew from a single shop in Saudi Arabia to 35 countries and prints mainly in Sheikhupura, Pakistan; it has published over 1,500 books, translations and interpretations of the Qur'an in 29 languages and the six hadith collections in English in 38 volumes, and by 2020 was the second-largest publisher of translations of Islamic scripture after the King Fahd Complex.