About
Built by a Muslim who needed this.
Ilminar started with a simple frustration: knowing that a scholar addressed something, but being unable to find exactly what they said, and not trusting anything else enough to act on it.
The goal was never to replace the scholar or the student of knowledge. It was to make it easier to find what was already said, and to follow the source back to the voice that said it.
Ilminar indexes several scholars across different backgrounds and schools of thought, every lecture processed through its own transcription pipeline. More are added every week.
Ilminar is in beta. That doesn't change the standard. Every answer cites its source, no exceptions, even now.
It is built and maintained by one person, and the address below is where to find him.
Awab Akram · awabakram.com
Why you don't have to take its word
Not an algorithm's judgment. A source you can verify yourself.
Ilminar's own transcription pipeline, built for spoken Islamic lectures and Arabic terms, processes every lecture. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) then finds the actual passage where a scholar addressed your question before it writes anything, so the answer is grounded in something real, not the model's memory.
But the real trust isn't in the pipeline or the model. It's that every answer links to the exact moment in the recording, so you can tap play and hear the scholar say it yourself.
Nothing here is scraped into a black box. Every lecture comes from a named speaker and a published recording you can watch in full. Ilminar doesn't host anyone's video or audio: it stores what was said, and links back to the original recording on the speaker's own channel.
It can still get this wrong. Retrieval can surface a passage that isn't quite the one you needed, a summary can drop a condition the scholar attached, and the transcript underneath can mishear a term, especially an Arabic one, and pull in the wrong passage. That's what the timestamp is for: if it matters, listen to the clip before you act on it. Found an answer that misrepresents what a scholar said? Tell us and we'll fix it.