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This page says how the tools and guides on Baseer Tools are made, what a reader can rely on, and what happens when something is wrong. It describes what the site does today. If the practice changes, this page changes first.
Who is responsible
Baseer Tools is built and maintained by Mufti Abdul Baseer, Islamic scholar and accounts professional, who is responsible for what is published. You can read more on the author page and the about page. Pages on United States tax, retirement, Medicare and overtime rules are published under the name Baseer Tools Editorial, because they are built from published IRS, CMS and Department of Labor material and have not been reviewed by a United States tax professional. The about page says so, and you should confirm any figure you will rely on with the agency or a licensed professional.
How rules and figures are sourced
- Primary sources first. A rule is taken from the law, the regulator’s publication or the issuing body’s table where one exists, for example the IRS publications for United States tax figures, the CMS tables for Medicare premiums, and the statute text for federal holidays.
- Sources are named on the page. A tool that applies a rule lists its sources under “Sources and review”, and a guide lists its sources at the end. Where a figure comes from a news report or a charity page rather than from the issuing body, the page says it is reported, not official.
- Religious rulings are not made here. The Islamic tools count and subtract from figures you enter. Where a tool follows a published ruling, such as the zakat calculator’s default of the Hanafi fatwas of Darul Ifta, Jamia Uloom Islamia Banuri Town, it says which one, shows other standards beside it, and states that it is a calculation and not a fatwa. The site is not affiliated with the bodies it cites.
- Estimates are labelled as estimates. Planning figures such as Hajj and Umrah costs are starting points that you can replace, and the page says so.
- Rules the author has not signed off are not coded from general knowledge. A tool is listed only when its core function works and its tests pass. Tools that depend on a religious or legal rule set that has not been written down and approved, such as inheritance shares, are not published until it has been.
How calculations are tested
Every calculation has automated tests that run before each release, covering ordinary cases and the edge cases that usually go wrong: rounding, month ends, leap years, zero and negative inputs. The worked example on each tool page, and the figures quoted in guides, are produced by the same code the tool runs, so the text cannot drift away from the result. Tests show that the code does what it was written to do. They do not prove that a rule was read correctly, which is why sources are shown and errors can be reported.
Dates on pages
Every tool page, guide and group page shows the date it was last updated. That date changes when the content or a figure changes. It is not refreshed to make a page look new. Where a page says it was reviewed against its sources on a date, that date is changed only when the sources have actually been read again.
Corrections
If you find a mistake, tell us through the contact page with the tool, what you entered, what you expected and what you got. A confirmed error is fixed, the page’s update date changes, and the change is recorded on the corrections page. A mistake that could cause a reader to pay too little or too much is fixed first.
Independence and advertising
The site shows no advertising at present. If advertising is added, the privacy page will say so first, ads will be kept away from the tools themselves, and advertising will not influence any result, any ranking of tools, or what a page says. No tool or guide is paid for, and no result is sponsored.
What this site will not do
- Invent credentials, reviews, ratings or testimonials.
- Publish earnings, savings or ranking promises.
- Help produce documents meant to mislead, such as a pay stub for income that was never paid.
- Send what you type to a server. The one tool that contacts other servers, the ping test, says so on its page and on the privacy page.