Ali Hammuda – The work for Palestine has just begun – Waqforever update

			It has been just around eight months or
		

			so since we launched one of our first
		

			projects of Waqf Forever, the Waqf for Palestine,
		

			a project of permanent and sustainable benefit for
		

			the cause of Palestine.
		

			The project of course was initiated due to
		

			the critical situation that is unfolding on the
		

			ground there in Gaza.
		

			You have seen the horrific situations only ever
		

			worsening, displacing most of the population of Gaza
		

			as we speak and certainly putting them all
		

			at an immediate risk of death.
		

			So we set ourselves an ambitious goal to
		

			empower the people of Gaza and also to
		

			push the cause of Palestine to center stage
		

			to make it a matter of global concern.
		

			By the grace of Allah, the response has
		

			been overwhelming to say the very least.
		

			Alhamdulillah we've had social media personalities and respected
		

			scholars from many parts of the Muslim world
		

			promoting the cause.
		

			Our team has visited various localities up and
		

			down the country, held events in the UK
		

			to raise money for the Waqf and we've
		

			had people at their own family capacity, communal
		

			capacity, masjid capacity, coming together taking initiatives and
		

			pushing these towards our Waqf.
		

			And Alhamdulillah as a result in the 8
		

			months or so we have raised almost 1
		

			.4 million pounds Alhamdulillah and we haven't been
		

			sitting idly waiting to hit our target of
		

			2 million.
		

			With these funds our team has been busy
		

			laying the foundations for the Waqf.
		

			With the support and the guidance from our
		

			investment committee we have fully purchased four properties
		

			in London, transferred their ownership to the Waqf
		

			and all of them have now been fully
		

			repaired, relevated, brought up to scratch, rented out
		

			and now they are generating a regular income
		

			Alhamdulillah.
		

			These four properties will generate a total of
		

			120,000 pounds in annual revenue and all
		

			of this and we're just over the halfway
		

			mark of reaching the target 2 million pounds.
		

			Now if we do reach this we will
		

			be able to purchase a total of eight
		

			properties generating nearly a quarter of a million
		

			pounds in annual revenue for many years to
		

			come we hope Inshallah.
		

			Now we've also met with several registered UK
		

			charity partners on who will be the distributor
		

			on the ground on behalf of yourselves, on
		

			behalf of the Waqf and we're pleased to
		

			say Alhamdulillah that we've agreed on a charity
		

			partner for this very urgent and noble endeavour
		

			and Inshallah we're going to announce it very
		

			soon to yourselves as per who they are
		

			and what we intend to do specifically.
		

			Finally 100% of the author's profits from
		

			the books Married Ever After and Life with
		

			the Divine they will go towards the Waqf
		

			in order to help you to achieve two
		

			goals when you purchase these books.
		

			The first your own Islamic growth and nearness
		

			to through learning and number two to effectively
		

			and sustainably do something for the cause of
		

			Palestine after the help of Allah subhanahu wa
		

			ta'ala none of this would be possible
		

			without your support so we thank you once
		

			again this is our update to yourselves we
		

			encourage you to stay tuned for more updates
		

			now that the work Alhamdulillah is truly underway