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Chicago – June 16th 2013
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The typical matchmaking event held by other organizations is limited to the “halal speed dating” method. Where you speak to one person for a few minutes, and speak to many throughout the evening. Then, you have to decide which one you want to speak to at greater length for the potential of marriage down the road. The reason this concept often fails is because this notion has been borrowed by those who use it for dating – not for marriage. Since a date is a connection for just a few hours (dinner, movie, etc), this may work for those individuals looking for just that. But for practicing Muslims who don’t date, the process often fails. Furthermore, these events are often open to the public. So you have no control of the man/woman ratio or the age gap, which are two of the reasons that such a negative stigma is associated with these events. Although these types of events may work for non-Muslims who date. They don’t work for Muslims who are serious about getting married. It is understood that you need to spend more than three minutes with someone to find your other half.

Half Our Deen Offline has taken a completely new approach to this process and has designed their Muslim Matchmaking events differently. The features of HOD Offline:

Privacy: The city, date and time of the event is advertised but the exact location of the event is only sent to those who are invited so the event is private.

Filtering: Anyone interested in attending the event will have to fill out a survey on HOD Offline (www.hodoffline.com) which will tell us about them and what their looking for. If we feel that we have enough candidates for that specific person, then we would invite them to that event. If not, we will hold their information and invite them to a future event.

Unique Activities: HOD has come up with a list of cool activities, which will hopefully make the event feel more natural InshaAllah. The goal is to make people feel comfortable so it won’t feel like a single’s event but more like a get together.

No missed connections: Everyone on HOD Offline event can also be found on halfourdeen.com. With so many people and just a few hours, you may not always speak to everyone that you want. Sometimes you may speak to someone but you may not be comfortable asking questions like “are you divorced?”, or “do you have a job?” etc, but you can easily look up that information in the person’s profile. I think these events help people see if there is chemistry between two people. Were not assuming spending a few minutes with each person allows you figure out who you want to marry. External Event Url
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