Maghrib & Majlis | Pillars Network
*This event will be outdoors, weather permitted.
Majlis (Arabic: مجلس, plural: majālis) means “a place of sitting.”
Learn how Muslim founders choose problems worth solving, and what it means to build with responsibility and Ihsan (excellence).
About the event
With AI, open-source tools and modern startup infrastructure, more people than ever can ship a product, launch a landing page, automate a workflow or test an idea over a weekend.
The harder question is no longer only:
Can I build this?
It is:
Is this worth building?
For Muslims, that question carries even more weight. Our work should not only serve our careers, companies or personal ambition. At its best, our work can become a means of worship, service and long-term benefit when it is rooted in sincere intention, ethical clarity and responsibility toward others.
For our next Pillars Network gathering, we are hosting Maghrib & Majlis, an evening of two fireside chats with founders who have built around deep, real-world problems.
The conversation will ask:
How do you identify a problem worth dedicating serious time to?
How do you separate signal from noise in a fast-moving ecosystem?
What skills do Muslims need to stay high-agency, useful and grounded?
How do you move quickly without losing direction?
How can Muslim ambition serve something larger than individual success?
The gathering will end with Maghrib prayer in congregation.
About the speakers
Arish Shahab is Co-Founder of Amano, a health-tech company building accessible, personalized hearing technology recently featured on Founders, Inc. for making hearing aids that cost 1,000x less than every other competitor: https://lnkd.in/eJfTBTb3
Rishard Rameez is Co-Founder and CEO of Zown, a buyer first real estate platform working to make homeownership more affordable, transparent and accessible. Zown was named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025: https://lnkd.in/ekvGFxnr
About Pillars Network
Pillars Network is a Canadian Muslim movement building spaces and programs for Islamic education, professional growth and cross-sector collaboration. We exist to bring Canadian Muslims into the same rooms to learn, connect, upskill and collaborate around what we are responsible for building together.
Questions? Email the Pillars Network team or reach out to the Co-Founders directly: Afifa, Muhib or Nabeeha.