Talbina app تطبيق تلبينة

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Soothing the hearts, Feeding the souls

Talbina is a health app that helps Muslims discover and learn Islamic nutrition and health topics, by teaching and putting to practice prophetic medicine.

We provide visual hadith guides (sayings of the Prophet Mohammed ﷺ), Quran lessons, fiqh of food and health (Islamic jurisprudence), Islamic inspired health guides curated by Registered Dietitians & health professionals, recipes, goal planning and achieving, and a place for reflection (tadabbur and tafakkur) in one educational platform.

It provides Muslims an easy and fun way to engage with nutrition and health information, in a religious dimension, and through a cross-cultural context. Talbina connects Islamic knowledge and goal achieving, with our vision of "soothing the hearts, feeding the souls."

What does talbina mean?

is a food (in Arabic: تلبينة) with origins in the Arabian peninsula. It is a porridge made from the barley grain, formed by adding milk and honey to barley flour. The name originates from the Arabic word laban meaning yogurt, because of its resemblance to yogurt, as it is soft and white. In Islamic tradition, it is said to sooth and relieve the heart of the sick from sadness. This Islamic prophetic remedy is an inspiration for the name of our app.

Why choose talbina?

Why Talbina?

Talbina balances knowledge-gaining with goal achieving, through a platform that allows for Muslims to see real life change.

We promote diversity internally in the Muslim community, by including Islamic opinions mentioned across different books from various schools of thought. This promotes positive interactions and inclusivity between Muslims, providing benefit and ease of access to information.

We create a cross-cultural experience that connects nutrition and health to a religious dimension, addressing the health needs of a diverse population underrepresented in healthcare

Get to know our team

We provide Muslims engaging visual content that raises ranks in knowledge, in an interactive and fun way

Talbina Team

Sana Hamdan

سناء حمدان

Founder and ceo

CONCEPT AND MARKETING

Sana Hamdan is an alumna of Babson College, M.S in Management in Entrepreneurial Leadership, and alumna of Michigan State University, B.S. in Biomedical and Molecular Nutrition, and minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She is interested in medicine and health, and digital entrepreneurship.

Ailiya Jamal

ايليا جمال

CO-FOUNDER

DESIGN

Ailiya Jamal is an alumna of University of Toronto, B.S. Health and Disease Major, with a minor in Physiology and Immunology. She is experienced in digital drawing and illustration using procreate.

Aimun Jamal

ايمن جمال

co-founder

CONTENT

Aimun Jamal is an alumna of University of Toronto, B.S. Health and Disease Major, with a minor in Physiology and Immunology. She is experienced in creative writing and research.

Dua AlDasouqi

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, founder of A Muslim Dietitian

Dua Aldasouqi is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and the founder of A Muslim Dietitian. She is also a graduate of Qalam Institute’s Seminary program and a current Alimiyyah student. She aims to serve the Muslim American audience by providing you with the tools needed to navigate through the sea of nutrition information.

Dua strongly believes that it’s important to ensure the food we eat is pure, halal, and tayyib. If we are well informed we can in turn better inform the market.

She also genuinely believes that our relationship with food should not be complicated. Eating is an organic process but our bodies and minds are overstimulated with different flavors and information that we need help resetting. Outside of nutrition, Dua writes poetry and sometimes performs. She lives in Champaign, IL with her husband and little ones, Jibreel and Haitham.

Malak Saddy

RD, LD/LDN, CEDS-S, Malak saddy nutrition

Malak Saddy RD, LD/LDN, CEDS-S, is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, Supervisor, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Licensed Body Positive Facilitator, Speaker and Non-Diet Advocate. She uses her own personal experiences of growing up in a first-generation American Lebanese, Muslim household and attributes her career to her cultural background. Malak currently works with clients 1:1 providing individualized nutrition counseling sessions in the states of CA, FL, IL, LA, MA, MI, TX, WI.

She is keen on providing personalized nutritional care and counseling support to clients and their families, while being empathetic and supportive of their personal needs, and cultural background. Malak is a keynote speaker working with professional organizations and corporations to educate participants on how to heal their relationship with food and body image as well as nutrition trauma informed care. Malak also provides business and case consultations to those seeking to provide nutrition support in eating disorder care, and or intuitive eating applications.

Mariam Metwally

Accredited Practising Dietitian and Certified Fertility Dietitian, and founder @tayyibnutrition

Mariam is passionate about helping women gain relief from women’s health conditions like PCOS, and supporting women and couples optimise their diet and lifestyle to support their fertility and preconception health.

She knows the power of nutrition and lifestyle can absolutely shape not only a couple’s chance of falling pregnant, but being able to support the health of their future child for life.

She runs her virtual practice Tayyib Nutrition in Sydney, Australia where she supports clients 1-1, all around the world, as well and delivering a variety of support to educate and inform the community at large through webinars and her social media. You can find her coffee hopping when she’s not in clinic!

Ilham Malick

DIETICIAN, INSPIRE NUTRITIONS, PUBLIC speaker

Ilham Malick has a double Master’s degree in Dietetics. She graduated from the Master’s in Dietetics Program from the University of Vermont in 2023, and is also a Gold Medalist in MS India. She is also a Health Coach and is currently working towards becoming a Registered Dietitian and opening her own private practice.

She holds an Ijazah in Hadith studies from Critical Loyalty and her expertise lies in combining Modern Nutrition with the Sunnah way of living and presenting it to a Muslim audience. She has given given many talks and held nutrition camps in different Islamic organizations all over California, USA.