Masjid al-Haram draws some of the densest, most sustained crowds of any religious site on earth. In that crowd, a dropped phone call or a wrong turn can mean real panic — for the pilgrim who's lost, and for the family checking their own phone every few minutes back home. Most tracking tools weren't built for this specific problem. Wasl was.
Generic location-sharing apps assume open sky and a phone that's always in hand. Hardware trackers assume it's charged, worn, and not left behind at the hotel in the morning rush. Neither is built for the specific reality of Hajj and Umrah: enormous, sustained crowds; GPS that genuinely struggles indoors and in dense areas; and pilgrims who are, understandably, more focused on worship than on checking a map.
Wasl exists to close that gap — a live map that's honest about what it can and can't see, a way to recover someone even if their own phone dies, and enough of the everyday side of the deen (Qur'an, prayer, family Circles) that people keep it long after they've come home.
Wasl is built by a small team of engineers, working closely with each other to keep the app honest, fast, and genuinely useful rather than feature-bloated. We consult a qualified Islamic scholar on religious content.
When GPS genuinely can't pinpoint you — inside the Haram, in a tunnel, with no signal — Wasl says so and falls back to zones and last-seen locations, instead of showing a confident dot that's actually wrong.
We consult a qualified Islamic scholar on religious content rather than shipping it unchecked.
Location is only ever visible to your own group (and, if relevant, your agency's assigned staff) — never anyone outside that circle. See our Privacy Policy.
We run security assessments of the app and infrastructure as part of how we build, not as an afterthought — see the Security section on our homepage.
We consult a qualified Islamic scholar on religious content.
Only the members of your own Wasl group — and, if you joined through a licensed agency's group, that agency's assigned staff. Never anyone outside that circle.
No. Your location is only ever visible to your own group — and, if relevant, your agency's assigned staff — never sold, shared, or shown to anyone outside that circle.
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