Ummah Design

I was shocked when I got a letter from Salaam Halal Insurance saying that they are not accepting any requests for new quotations or contracts nor will they be renewing existing ones. Moreover, surprisingly enough no reason was given of what led to such a decision. I checked their website (www.salaaminsurance.com) and it is the same message there.

I switched my car insurance just recently from a conventioanal car insurer to Salaam Halal Insurance. Not only was I happy with the lower insurance rate but also I was proud to support the one and only Muslim Car Insurance in UK.

Anyway, I hope it is temporary and they will be back to business soon inshallah. As Allah says in the Quran whatever we think is bad for us may turn to be good and vice versa as we don’t know. So may be it is for the good, inshallah.

If you come to know the reason of why they stopped their business, please leave your comments here.

Jazakallahu khayran.

Wassalamu alaykum.

Alhamdulillah, the number of visitors to our blog have been increasing daily since we launched it almost a year ago, so much so that the total hits for September 2009 was over 150 000 mashallah, this is at the least 5000 unique visits a day!

Having seen our blog’s growing success and popularity, we decided to deploy a more professional look to it, not only to make it more attractive to the eye but also to improve the over all theme and layout of it, making our blog more readable and user friendly.

We hope this will help increase the traffic to our blog even more inshallah.

Please leave your comments, we would love to hear your feedback.

Jazakallahu khayran.

Showing Kindness to the Poor

Showing kindness and mercy to the poor and needy in society is another way a person can increase his sustenance and wealth. This is because Allah ’s blessings shower upon a society due to its poor and helpless people among them.

The Prophet SAW said: “ Find me amongst your weak, because the only reason that you are provided sustenance and aided in victory is because of your weak!” Reported by Imam Ahmad in his Musnad (5/198).

Mulla ‘Ali Qari said:
“Find me amongst the weak’ means to search for the prophets pleasure by being kind and merciful to your poor’” Mirqat al-Mafatih (9/84)

The primary reason that Allah provides for us is due to the presence of the weak and poor so by being kind to them Allah will bestow a wealth to us.

Therefore those who wish to achieve the help of Allah should be kind to the weak and down-trodden in society even if it’s with a smile. For those of us that can’t show our kindness or mercy financially can show it in compassion and love by not looking down upon them with arrogance for verily its not status and wealth that make us better than one another but only the Taqwa of Allah .

And Allah knows best!

From “15 ways of increasing your earnings. From the Quran and Sunnah” by Abu Ammar Yasir Qadhi. Publishing and distribution by Al-Hidayah.

To read more about other ways of increasing one’s wealth go to this section.