Naseeb
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Naseeb.com is a Muslim
social network service
similar to Friendster
.com that allows Muslims around the world to interact for reasons such as sharing views, finding a soul mate, activity partners, or setting up friends with individuals they may encounter on the website. Naseeb, the website, started off as a free site which gained a lot of visibility amongst Muslims and national media. Soon after Naseeb added features such as chats, villages, and more space to upload pictures for a fee. "Naseeb" is an Arabic term meaning destiny or fate.
Naseeb.com also has an E-Zine called Vibes www.naseebvibes.com which has featured articles by over 500 interviews including those of Islamic scholars like Imam Faisal Rauf (aka Feisal Abdul Rauf
), Dr. M. Nejatullah Siddiqi, Dr. Javed Ghamidi and Omid Safi, to renowned figures in the Muslim world like Amina Wadud, Dr. Louay M. Safi
(Executive Director at ISNA), Raza Kazim
(philosopher, musician, historian) and Dr. Asma Barlas (author "Believing Women" in Islam). Vibes has also conducted exclusive interviews with Noam Chomsky and former Presidential candidate John Kerry.
Naseeb.com launched a feature to help promote artists from across the Muslim world called N-Tunes www.naseeb.com/tunes. It currently has over 70 artists from Palestine, Pakistan, Egypt, Malaysia, India, Africa, to North American and British Muslim musicians. The feature gives free access to bandwidth, webpages, photos, and allows Muslim artists to promote their albums and music through a measurable online Muslim social networking community.
Naseeb.com does not cater to any one ideological mind-set and allows a free-expression of opinions on faith, politics and social relations.
While some users have found their partners through the site, the Naseeb community equally caters to those seeking friends of similar backgrounds or beliefs in an increasingly globalized world. It has also helped many call girls to meet their prospective clients through the website. Interactions in Naseeb Villages, Naseeb user journals, Vibes magazine and N-Tunes reflects the desire of the diverse Muslim community to exchange ideas and make friends through the site.
Naseeb.com has also partnered with Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre
(SKMCH and RC) to help fight cancer. SKMCH is a state-of-the-art institution located in Lahore, Pakistan which provides free cancer treatment for the underprivileged.
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
social network service
Social network service
A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or activities. A social network service consists of a representation of each user , his/her social...
similar to Friendster
Friendster
Friendster is a social gaming site that is based in Malaysia, KL. The company now operates mainly from the three Asian countries namely in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore....
.com that allows Muslims around the world to interact for reasons such as sharing views, finding a soul mate, activity partners, or setting up friends with individuals they may encounter on the website. Naseeb, the website, started off as a free site which gained a lot of visibility amongst Muslims and national media. Soon after Naseeb added features such as chats, villages, and more space to upload pictures for a fee. "Naseeb" is an Arabic term meaning destiny or fate.
Naseeb.com also has an E-Zine called Vibes www.naseebvibes.com which has featured articles by over 500 interviews including those of Islamic scholars like Imam Faisal Rauf (aka Feisal Abdul Rauf
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Feisal Abdul Rauf is an American Sufi imam, author, and activist whose stated goal is to improve relations between the Muslim world and the West...
), Dr. M. Nejatullah Siddiqi, Dr. Javed Ghamidi and Omid Safi, to renowned figures in the Muslim world like Amina Wadud, Dr. Louay M. Safi
Louay M. Safi
Louay M. Safi is a Syrian-American, a scholar of Islam and the Middle East, and an advocate of Arab and Muslim American rights. He published on such issues as social and political development, modernization, democracy, human rights, and Islam and Modernity...
(Executive Director at ISNA), Raza Kazim
Raza Kazim
Raza Kazim is a lawyer, activist and former politician in Pakistan. He was involved with the Pakistan Peoples Party in its initial days and, before that, with the Muslim League and, in British India, the Indian National Congress....
(philosopher, musician, historian) and Dr. Asma Barlas (author "Believing Women" in Islam). Vibes has also conducted exclusive interviews with Noam Chomsky and former Presidential candidate John Kerry.
Naseeb.com launched a feature to help promote artists from across the Muslim world called N-Tunes www.naseeb.com/tunes. It currently has over 70 artists from Palestine, Pakistan, Egypt, Malaysia, India, Africa, to North American and British Muslim musicians. The feature gives free access to bandwidth, webpages, photos, and allows Muslim artists to promote their albums and music through a measurable online Muslim social networking community.
Membership and Community
Naseeb.com is the largest online Muslim social network with over 336,000 registered members (including many fake profiles and members who have not logged in for years with 90% non paying members). While the majority of members are indeed Muslims, there are also members from other communities interacting on the site. The site is not designed to be socially exclusive for Muslims, rather it is designed as a social mechanism for people who either live in Muslim countries, or have that heritage from those countries, as well as those who live in the 'Western world' in general.Naseeb.com does not cater to any one ideological mind-set and allows a free-expression of opinions on faith, politics and social relations.
While some users have found their partners through the site, the Naseeb community equally caters to those seeking friends of similar backgrounds or beliefs in an increasingly globalized world. It has also helped many call girls to meet their prospective clients through the website. Interactions in Naseeb Villages, Naseeb user journals, Vibes magazine and N-Tunes reflects the desire of the diverse Muslim community to exchange ideas and make friends through the site.
Naseebers Uniting to Help
Over the past few years, Naseeb.com has mobilized its members to help during times of humanitarian crisis such as during the Indonesian Tsunami of 2004, Hurricane Katrina that devastated New Orleans, and the Pakistan Earthquake in 2005.Naseeb.com has also partnered with Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a state-of-the-art cancer centre located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is a project of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, which is a charitable organization established under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 of Pakistan....
(SKMCH and RC) to help fight cancer. SKMCH is a state-of-the-art institution located in Lahore, Pakistan which provides free cancer treatment for the underprivileged.