Be Ready · UK Cabinet Office · October 2026

When the systems stop,your family shouldn't.

Preparedness for UK Muslim families: water, food, power and faith, planned before you need them.

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Be ReadyEvery home able to cope alone for 3 days Water3 litres of drinking water per person per day FoodTins and dry food that need no cooking LightTorch and spare batteries, not candles NewsBattery or wind-up radio MoneyCash in small notes ContactsImportant numbers written on paper HealthA week of regular medicines in hand MissingWater for wudu: not on the list
What the government is asking
72 hrsEvery household ready to manage alone without power, water, phones or internet.
3 LOf drinking water per person, per day, plus more for cooking and washing.
Wudu?Not on the list. A Muslim home needs water for prayer as well as thirst.

Four things a Muslim home plans for

Water

Drinking, washing and wudu

Your store should count every prayer, not just every glass.

How much

The Prophet ﷺ made wudu with about one mudd of water, less than a litre (Sahih al-Bukhari 201). Three wudu a day, for everyone who prays, for three days: the family plan adds it up for you.

Food

Halal, long-life, no cooking

Built from what your family already eats, stocked gradually, never panic-bought.

Power and news

Phones die on day one

Power banks, a wind-up radio, numbers on paper, an offline device with Quran audio.

Faith

Salah without a phone

A printed prayer timetable, a compass for the qibla, a physical mushaf and a head torch for Fajr.

Why it matters

Prayer apps, Quran apps and the adhan on your phone all stop when the battery does. The faith kit is the part of the plan no government checklist will write for you.

Short film series

The Age of Fitnah

Short films about what a Muslim family needs when the systems stop. Each one ends with something you can do tonight.

We will certainly test you with some fear and hunger, and loss of wealth, lives and crops. So give glad tidings to the patient.Al-Baqarah 2:155 (our rendering)

Who's behind this

I'm a London dad who reads risk reports for a living. When the government asked every home to be ready for three days on its own, nobody was writing that advice for families like mine. So this is it: official guidance, with the faith built in.

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The scenes and voice in our films are AI-generated. The research is real.

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