No registration
There is no sign-up, no form, no membership. You do not tell us you are coming. You arrive, or you don't.
Anonymity
The first word in our name is the one we take most seriously.
Fear of being recognised is the single biggest reason Muslims stay away from recovery rooms. It deserves a straight answer rather than a reassuring one.
"Someone will know me."
Muslim communities are close. The same few hundred families, the same masjid, the same weddings and janāzahs. The worry that someone will recognise you — and that it will reach your parents, your spouse, your in-laws, the people at Jumu'ah — is not paranoia. It is a reasonable reading of how a tight community works.
So we will not tell you that nobody will ever recognise anybody. What we can tell you is that everyone else in that room walked in carrying exactly the same fear, and is protected by exactly the same rule you are. It is the one thing every person there has already agreed to.
There is a difference between anonymity and secrecy. Secrecy is what addiction runs on — it needs you isolated and quiet. Anonymity is the opposite: it is the condition that makes it safe to stop being quiet.
In practice
What that means on a Friday.
No attendance record
No sign-in sheet, no register, no list. We do not keep a record of who was in the room, because no such record is ever made.
First names, or none
Nobody asks for your surname. If you would rather give a different name, or no name at all, that is entirely normal and nobody will press you.
You never have to speak
When it comes round to you, "pass" is a complete answer. You can come for weeks and never say anything beyond hello. That is not wasted time.
No recording
Recording of any kind is forbidden, in the room and on Zoom — no photographs, no video, no audio. Zoom announces its own recording to everyone the moment it starts, so we would all see it.
No cost, no collection
There is no fee and no collection plate passed round. Nobody is tracking what you give, because nobody is asking.
Joining online
Zoom shows your name. Change it first.
This is the one thing people get caught by. Zoom displays whatever name your account carries — which for most people is their full legal name from a work or university login, visible to everyone in the meeting the instant they arrive.
Rename before you join, not after
You do not have to turn your camera on
We keep nothing from the call
What this website collects
Nothing. There are no analytics, no tracking pixels, no cookies, no advertising trackers, no embedded fonts or scripts from anyone else, and no forms. We do not know who visits this site, how many of you there are, or where you came from. That is deliberate, and it will not change.
Being straight with you
Where the limits are.
We would rather you heard this from us than discovered it later.
A peer meeting is not legally privileged. What you say in this room does not carry the legal protection that attaches to a conversation with your doctor, your lawyer, or a licensed therapist. We are a fellowship, not a treatment programme — which is also why nothing here goes into a medical record, an insurer's file, or a chart.
We cannot control what another person does. Confidentiality is a rule everyone agrees to, and it holds overwhelmingly well — but it is an agreement between people, not a lock. Anyone who breaks it has broken the one rule this fellowship has.
There are things nobody may keep quiet about. Illinois law requires certain people — including physicians — to report suspected abuse or neglect of a child or a vulnerable adult, and to act where someone is at immediate risk of serious harm to themselves or another person. Our facilitator is a physician. Those duties do not switch off in this room, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Everything else — your name, your story, your struggle, the fact that you were there at all — stays where you left it.
Come as you are.
No registration. No names required. No cost, ever.