We write about Salah, about raising Muslim children, and about the things families ask us every day. Those are subjects people take seriously, and so do we. This page says plainly who writes what you read here, who checks it, and — just as importantly — what we do not claim to be.
Who writes the blog
Rin Aziz writes most of what you read on this blog. She has written for My Salah Mat since late 2025 and is responsible for the words on the page. Like most writers today she uses software to help her tidy drafts and check how people phrase their questions, but the thinking, the research and the final word are hers.
Some posts are written by Kamal Ali, who founded My Salah Mat, and a few by other members of our team. Every post says who wrote it.
Who checks it
Our writing is checked by Dr Wendy Booth. Dr Booth is a student of Islam with a wide knowledge of the subject, and a published author who specialises in explaining complex ideas to young children — she wrote the explanations of the 99 Names of Allah used in our interactive wall art.
Dr Booth is not an Islamic scholar, and we will never describe her as one. Her job here is to read what we publish and make sure it is accurate, clear and respectful. It is not to issue rulings, and neither is ours.
What this blog is — and what it is not
This blog is written for parents teaching their children to pray, for new Muslims finding their footing, and for anyone who wants a plain answer to a plain question. Most of it is everyday Islamic knowledge and a good deal of it is simply parenting.
It is deliberately kept simple. We do not publish scholarly work, and we do not offer detailed analysis of hadith or of verses of the Qur'an. Where a question has a ruling attached to it, and especially where schools of thought differ, we say so and we tell you to ask your own local scholar or imam. That is not us avoiding the question — it is us knowing where our knowledge ends.
How we handle the Qur'an and hadith
- Where we quote the Qur'an we give the surah and verse, so you can look it up yourself.
- Where we quote a hadith we name the collection it comes from.
- We do not invent quotations, and we do not pass on sayings we cannot trace.
- Where practice differs between schools of thought, we say that it differs rather than presenting one view as the only view.
Where our experience comes from
My Salah Mat began at home in Newport, Wales, when Kamal Ali wanted a better way to teach his own children to pray. The interactive prayer mat that came out of that is our own invention. Since then our mats, books and learning toys have been used by Muslim families around the world, and we read the questions those families send us every single day.
That is the experience behind this blog. We are not a publisher writing about a subject from the outside. We make the things children learn to pray on, and most of what we write about is something a parent has already asked us.
If you think we have made a mistake
Please tell us. We would far rather correct something than leave it wrong, and a correction costs us nothing but a few minutes. Email info@mysalahmat.com with the page and what you think is wrong, and a person will read it.
When we change something important in a post, we change the post itself rather than quietly leaving the old version up.
Last reviewed: 2 October 2026.