We are excited to introduce a new tool on our website: the Qibla Finder. This feature helps you find the direction of the Kaaba in Makkah from wherever you are, using your device compass with optional spoken audio guidance.
In March 2026, GABLVM services experienced two unplanned outages caused by infrastructure issues at our hosting provider. This post explains what happened, what caused both incidents, and what we have done to permanently resolve them.
This Ramadan 1447, we are streaming nightly lectures from EPIC Masjid (East Plano Islamic Center) in Plano, Texas, featuring some of the most respected scholars and speakers in the Muslim community:
On February 11, 2026, a community member reported that prayer times were showing incorrect results for their city. What started as a single bug report uncovered three compounding bugs that had likely been present since the prayer times feature launched in November 2025. Over the next three days, our team shipped 7 bug fixes, 2 performance optimizations, and 6 accessibility improvements.
This is our first engineering blog post. We believe in transparency — when something breaks, we want to explain what happened, why, and what we learned.
You can now add Islamic events directly to your Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, or any calendar app that supports iCal. Visit the Islamic Calendar page, and you will find an Add to Calendar button next to each event.
We track 10 key Islamic events including Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Mawlid an-Nabi, and more. You can also download all events at once using the Download All Events button in the all events section.