Build a Community Even If You’re Not Physically Near One

When I sat down to outline a formal blog post for official community events, there was a brief thought that crossed my mind. It wasn’t something complicated, but enough to help me look at the Ummah app in another creative way. The Ummah app can, of course, be used as a global community platform for all the muslims out there. But for most of us – a student in a remote dorm, or a revert navigating Islam, the traveller looking for comfort in a foreign place, or the remote worker stuck in the constant loop of the corporate world – the said community can feel so out of reach.

Constantly waiting for big events around us to connect with like-minded people, and constantly trying to find yourself some peace in the rapid changes of the world around you can get exhausting. And here’s how I came to realise we don’t exactly need to do that.

Events will come and go, and Ummah will help you with those events around you

BUT, we don’t need to spend weeks looking forward to experience something new, something knowledgeable, and something rewarding. At home, in your room, one click away…is the Ummah app. Its efficient ways of providing everything one would need will enable you to not only attend formal events, informal too. The Ummah app isn’t just a directory for masjids or events around you. It is a virtual community builder for your everyday life, too. A tool also built for micro-communities, where it doesn’t matter if you are physically present.

Despite our busy lives, we are constantly lonelier and more isolated than connected

Students struggle to keep up with their prayers between lectures, remote workers work failing at maintaining social ties, and end up mixing their days and nights due to the stress of the work, and reverts feel lost and constantly in doubt about themselves. Plenty of problems, and plenty of other solutions. However, the easiest solution to these problems isn’t something you have to push yourself to do. But with one click, all these problems might just vanish.

At the Ummah app, you can not only create community portals and host big events, but also form small communities like same-age groups, or students who would like to recite the Quran together.

Think of the Ummah app like your group chat

Connect with people, discuss meetings and plan to spend time learning and sharing. The communities don’t need to be something over the top, as the number of members to join the community will be up to you. As an introvert myself, this is one of the best ways to get closer to Islam, while connecting with people without draining yourself and still achieving your goals of socialising modestly.

The hardest part of daily recitation is doing it alone. But with the help of the Ummah app, you can easily find recitation partners, teachers, and form a community. That way, you don’t worry about learning something wrong and having someone to learn with will provide you the good motivation to make progress.

Community is not something you can find; it is something that you have to “build.”

It doesn’t matter if you are a traveller looking for a genuine connection amongst lost crowds or a student looking for a study buddy; the Ummah app gives you access to the global map and the compass.

Don’t wait for formal or official events; start your own micro-community today (even if it’s as weird as sharing your grandma’s biryani recipes, we have it all). Even if you post one reflection or reach out to just one person, that is still a step closer to your virtual ummah and your faith. The walls of your community shouldn’t last just within four walls, but widen as your intention.