IANA Financial

Alhamdulillah, to-date, we’ve given two loans.  One of the challenges we’re having is of course in raising funds.  Now, we have a couple things that are not in our favor: 1) we don’t have charitable status yet (a 12 month process that we’ve started) 2) we’re “competing” against many other noble causes like sponsoring orphans;  helping students avoid paying interest isn’t as attractive as you may think (the fact is we need to support all noble causes).

So, in an effort to help educate the donors out there that this IS a relevant issue, and it IS important, and that they should help out, we’re looking for some help (from Allah of course!).

We want you to “Tell us your story.”

Go to the ‘Contact Us’ page and tell us your story (or email us your story: ). 

Each story should have the same format:

Name, Age, Gender (You can choose to remain anonymous of course - let us know)
a. the program you’re in
b. the size of your loan
c. the expected size of your loan upon completion
d. why you had to take a student loan
e. why you think the Iana Learn program is important/why people should support Iana in offering interest-free educational loans)

Now we’re inshaAllah going to take some of these stories and post them on the site, and some we’ll put in our brochure to give to donors (we’ll only put your name/story with your permission).  The idea is that if people can be made to realize the difficult situation students are in, they will inshaAllah help out.

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“Whosoever relieves from a believer some grief pertaining to this world, Allah will relieve from him some grief pertaining to the Hereafter. Whosoever alleviates the difficulties of a person in need, Allah will alleviate his difficulties in both this world and the Hereafter. Whosoever conceals the faults of a Muslim, Allah will conceal his faults in this world and the Hereafter. Allah will aid a servant (of His) so long as the servant aids his brother….” [Authentic Hadith Compiled by Muslim]