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