Rafiq is a study companion. An answer is a guide to the sources, not a fatwa and not a ruling on your own case.
These terms cover your use of Rafiq at rafiqai.app, the chats you hold there, and a share link you create from a chat. They were last updated on 9 October 2026. Using Rafiq means you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not send a question.
You ask a question. Rafiq searches a library of Islamic sources and a language model writes a reply from what that search returns. The reply is meant to show the sources and the reasoning in ordinary language.
An answer can be wrong. It can miss a condition, blend two positions, cite a passage for the wrong point, or lag behind a discussion. The sources named in a reply are there so you can read them yourself. A missing source, or a source that does not say what the reply claims, is a fault in the answer.
Do not treat an answer as a fatwa, and do not treat it as a decision for your own worship, family, money, or dealings. A matter that turns on your circumstances belongs with a qualified scholar who can hear those circumstances. Rafiq cannot hear them, and it does not claim to.
The same limit covers anything an answer touches that is also a medical, legal, or financial decision. The reply is a place to start reading. It is not a professional opinion.
The chat can answer as a companion for a Muslim, and it can answer someone who is asking from outside the tradition. You choose that with the Rafiq and Dawah control. Each path has its own sources. Choosing one does not make the reply a ruling either way.
You can set a name, a background, a language, and a place for prayer times. Those change how a reply is addressed. They do not create an account by themselves, and they do not make the reply personal advice.
You keep what you type. You give Rafiq permission to use the question to write the reply, to store the chat so you can open it again, to search the library with it, and to review it if you report the answer.
Do not send a question that includes someone else's private life, their contact details, or anything you are not free to share. A question is stored, and a share link can make a whole thread readable.
Use Rafiq for study. You may not:
Rafiq may refuse a question, stop a reply, or remove a chat that breaks these terms.
A share link lets anyone with the link read that conversation. You are responsible for a link you create. Do not share a thread that contains something you would not say in front of a stranger who saved the link.
Signing in is optional. It uses the Nizam account. You are responsible for activity under that sign-in, including a chat attached from this browser. Keep the sign-in to yourself.
If you use the developer dashboard and call Rafiq with an API key, that key is yours to keep private. Calls made with it are use of Rafiq under these same terms. A key that leaks is yours to revoke.
Rafiq is offered as it runs today. A reply can fail, arrive late, be cut short, or be removed. Sources are added and corrected. Features change. The service can be paused. There is no promise that a particular answer, chat, or feature will remain available.
To the extent the law allows, Rafiq is not liable for a loss that follows from relying on an answer, from a chat being unavailable, or from a share link you created. The answer is a starting point, and the sources it names are there so the claim can be checked.
These terms can be updated. The date on this page is the date of the terms in front of you. Continuing to use Rafiq after the date changes means you accept the updated terms.