As-salaamu ‘alaykum, wa rahmat-ullah.

I pray this brief message reaches you in the best of health and iman.

I would like to request you forward this message to your distribution lists and membership and pray you might continue to be moved to help. Your help previously has been essential and it remains vitally so at this time.

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Dear brother/sister,

As-salaamu ‘alaykum, wa rahmat-ullah.

As you are aware it has been a week since the devastating earthquake that hit the small Caribbean island of Haiti wreaked death and destruction to its population. Over 70,000 bodies have already been buried in mass graves, yet many more lie in streets and under buildings. Over 3 million people are without food, water, shelter and fuel. Aid agencies on the ground suffered terrible casualties of their own but now the response is fully underway.

Islamic Relief’s Emergency Response Team has been on the ground throughout, its initial assessments are now complete and it is in the process of mobilising aid through IR USA and our partners in the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). The nation has responded as it traditionally does. £25 million has been raised already for the DEC Appeal, and the Muslim agencies have responded in kind with major appeals of their own. Islamic Relief, a member of the DEC, aims to raise £1 million for life-saving immediate relief and longer-term reconstruction and rehabilitation.

Permissions for collections at public locations and private premises up and down the country have been sought and obtained and we now need to mobilise volunteers to collect at train and tube stations, supermarkets, high streets and mosques. We would also encourage Islamic Societies across the country to organise events to raise funds as well as awareness for Haiti and donate their jum’s collections. We need a few sustained weeks of fundraising to give the Haitian people the opportunity to rebuild their lives in dignity.

We have been taught of the humanitarian imperative and of our duties and obligations of charity and kinship and nowhere more clearly than the oft recited verse, “and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind” [5:32] – we pray that Allah (swt) gives us the ability to understand and act upon His words and sanctions.

If you are able to volunteer please simply fill this form: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en_GB&formkey=dHhoLVlSczRVWnAtRDB6d3NrZ2×4dGc6MA or contact Halima Hassan at Halima.Hassan@islamic-relief.org.uk or on 07545335197

We thank you for your support – Jazakum-Allahu khayran.

Halima Hassan

Volunteer Coordinator – Haiti Appeal

Islamic Relief UK

First of all, we are sorry are unable to provide you with any latest info on Islamic Arts as we should. We have been through a tough time and our other commitment which is much more important has left this website unattended.

However, we are still glad that readers from around the world keep visiting our website especially:

• Islamic Calligraphy Font
• Islamic Calligraphy Art
• Our Islamic wallpapers

Keep us going

For your information, the maintenance of the website is paid using our member account. However, we are running short in terms of contribution towards article and also fund. Today, we have just been notified that both of our domains www.isacstudio.com and www.isacstudio.co.uk will be expired soon and we would like your kindness to support us making the both domains alive.

It would cost us £10 for each domain. However, we are open with any amount that you wish to donate us. Yesterday, we went to Wikipedia and saw this:

We believe there a lot of people with a kind heart that wish to keep this website and serve others.

Remember us in your prayer and we really hope to get on our feet soon! Godspeed to all of us.

Alhamdulillah – We are grateful to Allah because without Him, we could never make a come back. We had hiccups before but now we are back on track inshaAllah. We are glad to let you know that we have made few changes on the administration side of ISAC Studio and we really hope that the new lines of admin will help us to move even further.

While we are away from online presence, our nasheed team (Munawwar) won the 2nd and 3rd place at the Next-Eire 2009 and Next 2009 – Video coming up soon. We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them. For those who were there watching them performing, we thank you for your support and hope to seeing you in the future event.

We don’t want to take much of your time, we would like to end this post by highlighting few features that we will try to maintain for today onwards inshaAllah.

• Nasheed of the Week
• Monthly wallpaper – Check out our wallpapers
• Poems
• Islamic events
• and more…

Apart from that, we would also like to take this opportunity to thank to someone who had been very kind and sponsored ISAC Studio web hosting for two years. We will try our best to keep ISAC Studio running well and provide quality content to all of our readers, subscribers and people of the world. If you would like to sponsor us, please send an email to us at isacstudio@gmail.com. Thank you very much for your kindness and may Allah reward you!

If you would like to receive updates from our website straight to your email, why don’t you subscribe to our mailing list and we will send email containing the latest updates of our website. Oh, and did we just forget to tell you that today is our anniversary for ISAC Studio online presence? Yup, as of today, ISAC Studio has been online running for a year and we will keep on running. Thank you for your support!

Credit: Cupcake by Kelly Sue

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