Mission 1 Ummah

One Ummah.
One Mission.
Infinite Impact.

M1U Foundation unites individuals, organizations, businesses, and community leaders around a shared mission — to give, serve, and create lasting impact.

Our Core Program About M1U
At a Glance
3 Core Programs
3 States Active
9 Masjids Connected
1 United Ummah
Our Mission

"The Ummah is strongest when we work together — not as separate organizations, but as one community united around a shared purpose."

Who We Are

We Don't Compete.
We Connect.

"To unite the Muslim community through collaboration, service, and innovation — making it easier for people to give, serve, and create lasting impact locally and globally."

M1U Foundation Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving as a bridge between people, mosques, nonprofits, and businesses — creating partnerships that multiply impact instead of dividing it.

🤲 Revert Support 📿 Supporting Imams 🎓 Imam Training 🍽️ Feeding the Hungry 🌍 Global Reach
Our Core Program

Thabaat

ثبات · steadfastness, firmness of heart

Nobody should walk into Islam alone.

Thabaat is a national support program for reverts, built jointly by M1U Foundation and the North American Imams Fellow. It pairs every revert with a trained, screened companion within 48 hours of their shahada — and stays with them for a full year.

Why "revert"? Every child is born upon the fitrah and is turned toward another faith by upbringing. Someone entering Islam is returning to an original state rather than adopting a foreign one.

We built a front door.
Nobody staffed the back door.

A person takes their shahada. The masjid erupts in takbir. Forty people embrace them, someone presses a phone number into their hand, and they go home.

Within a month, the numbers have gone cold. Family has stopped speaking to them. Friends have drifted. The community that celebrated them has moved on to the next celebration.

What follows is not a crisis of belief. It is a crisis of belonging — and no one is assigned to catch it.

Net zero Islam in the U.S. gains roughly as many converts as it loses, so conversion has little net effect on the size of the American Muslim population.
Pew Research Center
1 in 4 American adults raised Muslim no longer identify with the faith — the lowest retention rate of any country Pew surveyed.
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48hrs

A companion is assigned

Not offered. Assigned. Nobody has to find us at the moment they have the least capacity to look.

12mo

The relationship holds

Structured check-ins, a needs assessment, and a named person accountable for the first full year.

1:1

One human being

Same-gender pairing, supervised monthly, with a clear path to scholars and licensed clinical care.

Rafeeq
Companionship

A screened, trained companion who walks alongside a revert for twelve months. Rafeeq means companion, not mentor — the difference is the point.

Ta'leem
Formation

A twelve-week Foundations cohort built around daily practice and lived transition — prayer, family, halal living, workplace — rather than abstract doctrine.

Sanad
Support

Scholars for direct questions, gender-specific peer circles, licensed counseling by referral, and a staffed national line that a real person answers.

If you're the one who needs this,
reach out.

Whether you took your shahada last week or you're still learning about Islam, you don't have to navigate it alone. Tell us a little about yourself and someone from our team will get in touch.

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Your information is never shared, sold, or published.

Safeguarding is not a footnote

Reverts are often at their most isolated and least protected in the months after shahada. Every commitment below is in place before a single participant is enrolled.

✓National background check and registry search on every companion, repeated every two years
✓Same-gender pairing as the default for all one-to-one contact
✓Sixteen-hour certification with a pass requirement and annual recertification
✓Published code of conduct barring romantic pursuit and private financial arrangements
✓Mental health care delivered only by licensed clinicians — never by volunteers
✓Participant privacy protected by role. No public directory, ever.
✓Supervision at one supervisor per twelve companions. Nobody works unsupervised.
✓A complaint pathway that never routes through the person being complained about

The Rafeeq Corps

Rafeeqs are screened, certified, and supervised volunteers who commit to twelve months with one person. Recruitment opens alongside the first pilot cohort, and every applicant goes through references, a background check, a structured interview, and sixteen hours of certification before they are matched with anyone.

For imams and masjids

The intake protocol, curriculum, and companion certification are offered at no cost to imams and to existing revert-support programs. Where a capable program already exists, Thabaat equips it rather than competing with it.

Thabaat is in development.
The first pilot cohort launches in 2026. Site announcements and Rafeeq recruitment details to follow.

What We Do

Three Programs

Each program answers a need the community has named, and each is built to be run well rather than run everywhere.

Thabaat — revert support
Core Program
Thabaat — Revert Support
A trained, screened companion for every revert, assigned within 48 hours of shahada and held for twelve months. Built jointly with the North American Imams Fellow.
In developmentFirst pilot cohort in 2026
Imam Support
Program
Imam Support
Ensuring our spiritual leaders can serve their communities full-time. Imams are present at nearly every moment that matters in a Muslim's life — and are too often the least supported people in the room. Two training tracks are in development: financial health for imams and their families, and using digital tools to extend their reach.
ActiveNational imam network
Food4Thought
Program
Food4Thought
Feeding our community with dignity, compassion, and care. Built on years of local relationships, the program reaches people who would rather go without than ask — and meets them without making them explain themselves.
ActiveEstablished operation
National Imam Network

Building a Movement,
State by State

Dr. Abdulhakim Mohamed is designating one State Leader per state — each responsible for growing the M1U & Minar360 Imam network across America.

State Leader Confirmed
Coming Soon
Masjid Location
3States Active
9Masjids Connected
900+Imams Nationally
350K+Imams Globally
🌙 Community Spotlight

They've Been Praying in a Parking Lot
for Two Years.

In Warrenton, Virginia, a small but faithful Muslim community gathers every Jumu'ah in a parking lot — rain, wind, or shine — because they have nowhere else to go. This is the kind of community M1U exists to stand beside.

"Every Muslim who has ever stood in a row for Salah knows what it means to belong."
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Warrenton, VirginiaA rural community with no dedicated Islamic facility
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The needA permanent, dignified space to pray and gather
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An ongoing focusM1U highlights a community in need on a recurring basis
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The Team Behind the Mission

Dr. Abdulhakim Mohamed

Dr. Abdulhakim Mohamed

President, M1U Foundation Inc. · CEO, North American Imams Fellow

Dr. Abdulhakim Mohamed is President of M1U Foundation Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to advancing charitable and community-focused initiatives. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer of the North American Imams Fellow and President of the Global Imams and Scholars Council, and is a member of the Muslim World League.

Dr. Mohamed holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies and has served as an imam for over forty years. His career has also included work in education as both a teacher and a principal. He has been actively engaged in da'wah in the United States since 1995, dedicating his life to Islamic scholarship, community leadership, and service.

He is based in Michigan.

Leadership Team Day-to-day operations and program delivery
Abdul Tayyab

Abdul Tayyab

Vice President of Operations

Abdul Tayyab is an entrepreneur, operations strategist, and technology leader with a background in nonprofit and healthcare operations. As Vice President of Operations for M1U, he focuses on building scalable systems and supporting national initiatives.

He serves as Director of Customer Success for QubaLink/Minar360, working with masajid and community organizations to strengthen engagement through technology, and sits on the Executive Committee of OPEN DC.

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Saba Asad

Secretary

Bio to be updated.

Board of Directors Governance and fiduciary oversight, distinct from day-to-day operations
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Ahmed Ali

Director

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Sami Ahmed

Director

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Areeb Quasem

Director

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Volunteers The people who actually show up

M1U runs on volunteers

Every program on this page depends on people who give their time without being asked twice — at the masjid, on the phone, and behind the scenes. Volunteer recognition is published here as programs come online, and Thabaat's Rafeeq Corps will be named among them.

Work With Us

There's a Place for You
in This Movement

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Volunteer

Ready to serve? Tell us a little about yourself and what you'd like to help with, and someone from our team will follow up.

Volunteer With Us
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Imams & Masjids

Join the national imam network, or bring the Thabaat protocol and companion certification to your community at no cost.

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Partners

Whether you're a nonprofit, a business, or another program in this space — real change happens when we work together.

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Our Commitment

How M1U Operates

M1U Foundation Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Our programs are governed by a board, and our operating costs are covered separately through partnerships, sponsorships, and organizational support.

We would rather run three programs properly than ten thinly. Where a capable organization already does the work, we support it instead of duplicating it.

"Most nonprofits ask: will you donate?
M1U asks a different question:
Will you help build a stronger Ummah?"
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Safeguarding first

Background checks, supervision, and a published code of conduct are in place before any program touches a participant.

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Privacy protected

Participant information is restricted by role and never published. For many people we serve, privacy is a matter of real-world safety.

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Measured honestly

We report what actually happened — including what didn't work. Activity is not the same as outcome, and we don't confuse the two.

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Trust is an amanah

Every relationship, every referral, and every rupiah of support is treated as a trust we are answerable for.

One Ummah.
One Mission.

Building stronger communities through faith, service, and collaboration. Together, we can create lasting impact for generations to come.

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