Over 35 years ago, Syerrir Agnarsson Ibrahim converted to Islam. He was Iceland’s first Muslim, and he faced a dilemma.

It was summer in Iceland when Ramadan came, and the sun never set. Syerrir wanted to know how he should fast but had nobody to ask. So he put pen to paper and sent letters with his query to Al-Azhar University in Egypt and a few other Muslim organisations in London.

Unfortunately, nobody replied. 

Today, technology has enabled Muslims to access, practice and express their faith in radically different ways, changing how Muslims communicate, socialize, conduct business, to even how they find and order halal food.

This change doesn’t happen organically just because the technology exists. There are real people who have put in a lot of hard work to leverage the internet and technology, in order to improve the lives of Muslims.