UMMA Martial Arts is a unique auxiliary system of education that focuses on the mind, the body, and the soul. Its specialty lays in its use of the Quran and Sunnah to help everyone "Know the nature of self in order to defend self," Sensei Abdullah Sabree. By incorporating Islamic principles to enhance any existing martial arts, UMMA Martial Arts provides a collective talent that nourtures the best students. Students exercise the right and left side of the brain, nourturing their confidence, creativity, critical thinking, conflict resolution, discipline, concentration, and many other mental talents. Students exercise their bodies, nourturing their health, self-confidence, coordination, range of movement, and many other physical talents. Students exercise their spiritual talents, nourturing their relationship with The Creator, their relationship with creation, and their own selves, through salaah (prayers), dhikr (reflection), akhlaq (good character), adab (manners), ummah (brotherhood/sisterhood), and many other Islamic principles.