Wali Mode: family involvement on your terms

In many communities, marriage connects households as well as two people. Relatives may want to understand intentions, ask practical questions, or simply know that someone is looking seriously — cultural and personal reasons, not a product claim about what Islam requires.

Wali Mode exists so that involvement can be intentional and visible inside the product when you want it, instead of happening only in private side channels.

Wali Mode is optional. You choose whether — and how — family or a trusted person is involved.

Involvement tiers are visibility and support you enable in the app. This feature does not fulfill, certify, or replace wali/guardian obligations in Islamic law.

You may designate a trusted person (family or community) for Wali Mode involvement. Designating someone in-app does not make them your wali in Islamic law.

They do not control who you reach out to. Involvement tiers are visibility/support you enable — not permission gates the product enforces as religious law.

You turn the feature on, choose the person, and decide the level of involvement. Maktub does not treat Wali Mode as a religious permission system.

If you have no suitable family or wali path (including some converts), you can still use Maktub without Wali Mode. Who may act as a wali in your situation is a personal fiqh question — ask a qualified scholar. Maktub does not appoint or certify a wali.

Specific fiqh questions belong with a qualified scholar — not Maktub support.

Like our Islamic values page, this journal describes how the product is designed. It does not determine who must act as a wali under Islamic law, and it does not map product tiers to legal ranks.

For personal religious questions, ask a qualified scholar who knows your circumstances.