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Short (50 words). Zaha is a coordinated Muslim mental health and spiritual care platform. Licensed Muslim therapists work alongside vetted imams to deliver six evidence-based programs — for anxiety, OCD, divorce recovery, grief, premarital prep, and marriage counseling — in a single, faith-fluent care model.
Long (120 words). Zaha is the first platform built specifically for Muslims navigating mental health alongside their faith. Most American Muslims who seek therapy face a choice: a therapist who doesn't understand the religious frame, or an imam without clinical training. Zaha pairs both. A licensed Muslim therapist and a vetted imam coordinate care across six structured programs — Sakina (anxiety & depression), Yaqeen (OCD & religious anxiety), Fajr (divorce recovery), Sabr (grief), Mithaq (premarital), and Rahma (marriage counseling) — with shared protocols, joint sessions, and outcomes tracking. Founded by Faizan Farukh, a biotech executive whose own community pulled him into the work after watching too many friends fall through the gap. Launching April 2027 and rolling out state by state as Zaha’s clinician network is credentialed in each jurisdiction.
Short. Faizan Farukh is the founder of Zaha Health, a coordinated Muslim mental health and spiritual care platform launching in April 2027. He is a biotech executive based in the Boston area and a long-time member of the New England Muslim community.
Long. Faizan Farukh founded Zaha Health after watching the gap between clinical and spiritual care swallow people in his own community. A biotech executive by day — with experience scaling regulated, outcomes-driven operations — he spent two years studying why so few Muslim mental-health offerings existed at scale, and why the ones that did rarely held both the clinical and the religious thread together. Zaha is the answer to that gap: licensed Muslim therapists paired with vetted imams, coordinated through shared protocols and outcomes tracking. Faizan is solo non-technical founder, working part-time toward an April 2027 launch. He lives in Massachusetts with his family.
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"Most Muslim mental-health offerings ask people to choose between their therapist and their imam. We refused that choice. The whole platform is built on the belief that the integration is the medicine."
"You can't outsource the religious frame to a 'culturally aware' clinician who doesn't pray. And you can't outsource trauma to an imam without clinical training. The only honest answer is both, working together."
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