Baba Ali *LIVE* in NY this Saturday 4/4/09

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,

I rarely do a solo show but a good bro MD (Muhammad) from MYIT convinced me to do it. With just 10 minutes left for the show, there was like 20 people and most of them were sitting in the back haha so we prayed Magrib and Alhamdulillah the pray lines were full. By the we finished and walked over to the hall, the event was sold out. Alhamdulillah it was a great crowd and the brothers/sisters were nothing but great hosts MashAllah.

Anyways, this week, I'm heading to Pullman, WA and coming back for another show in NY but this time in Queens. I'll be sharing the stage with many performers so I hope to see you guys there InshAllah.

For future performance dates, please visit this link

Half Our Deen Update

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,

The launch of HOD (Half Our Deen) got pushed back by a few weeks. The first company we hired from China kept delaying and eventually said it was too hard (joke). Then we tried a company in India and not only did they miss their deadline by nearly 6 weeks, but they programmed the site so poorly and it took forever to load (forever!). Then we decided to try a company here in the US and we found this one really smart got who knew what he was doing. Problem was that after 20hrs into the project, he suddenly got a huge job offer to run a company so he left the project. I guess another company found out how smart he was and wanted him to themselves.

So here's where we are are now: Recently, we decided to divide the workload into two parts (CSS and PHP Integration) so we can speed up the remaining work. As far as the CSS side of things, we need to have 22 pages done and we should be getting a quote and timeframe back by tomorrow for that. As far as the PHP Integration, I put the project out for bids and got about 30 responses so now I'm in the process of trying to find a PHP guru who knows what he is doing, isn't shady :), and can stick with a deadline.

The whole process has beeen quite frustrating because of all the delays. It is truly a test of patience for me so far but khair Allah (swt) knows best.

Ummah Films on Twitter

Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem,

You can now follow Ummah Films on Twitter. You will receive snippets of what I'm up to and its an easy way to keep in touch with me as well. All you have to do is go to twitter.com/ummahfilms and sign up as a follower of Ummah Films

"Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?"
There is a cool little video that explains how Twitter works. Just goto www.twitter.com and click on the "Watch Video" button.