| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | Lahore, Pakistan |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California |
| Key people | Monis Rahman, Founder and CEO |
| Employees | 25+ |
| Website | www.naseeb.com |
| Type of site | social networking |
| Registration | required |
| Available in | English |
| Launched | October 2004 |
| Current status | active |
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.
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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.
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 (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.