Structure
MAS Youth Detroit is the Greater Detroit chapter of MAS Youth. MAS Youth is the youth division of MAS (Muslim American Society).
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MAS Youth Detroit
MY Detroit has been active since the early 2000’s. In 2005, a new plan was formulated and launched. This plan included monthly activities to serve the youth in general, as well as weekly activities to focus on building youth workers. Such a plan continues to serve the community in the short run while building valuable resources for the long run. From the fall of 2006 MY Detroit started increasing its services to the general community through program partnerships, initiating coordinating roundtables for youth organizations as well as increasing public speaking engagements. In 2007 MY Detroit was able to further expand its activities, now offering signature projects for education, spirituality, community service and worker development that are aligned with MY National. MY Detroit also holds regular meetings with MY National and leaders of other MY chapters across the United States in order to exchange ideas, resources, and maintain the quality of youth work.
What is MAS?
The Muslim American Society (MAS) is a charitable, religious, social, cultural, and educational, not-for-profit organization. It is a pioneering Islamic organization, an Islamic revival, and reform movement that uplifts the individual, family, and society.
When and where it all started?
The Muslim American Society (MAS) traces its historical roots back to the call of the Prophet Muhammad ( Peace be upon him). Its more recent roots, however, can be traced to the Islamic revival movement which evolved at the turn of the twentieth century.
This movement brought the call of Islam to Muslims throughout the globe to reestablish Islam as a total way of life. The call and the spirit of the movement reached the shores of North America with arrival of Muslim students and immigrants in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
These early pioneers and Islamic movement followers established in 1963 the Muslim Student Association (MSA) of the U.S and Canada as a rallying point in their endeavor to serve Islam and Muslims in North America. Other services and outreach organizations soon followed, such as the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), the Islamic Medical Association (IMA), the Muslim Arab Youth Association (MAYA) and the Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA), to name a few.
Twenty years later, Islamic movement followers and sympathizers in North America launched the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) as an outgrowth of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) to serve the needs of the ever-growing number of indigenous and immigrant Muslims who had opted to reside permanently in North America.
Since its inception, ISNA, and other organizations affiliated with it, worked diligently with those who were to become the founding members and future leadership of MAS, towards the advancement of the cause of Islam and Muslims in North America.
Mindful of the dynamic changes that are taking place within the Muslim community and its surroundings, and keeping an eye on the future, a number of Islamic workers and Islamic movement followers decided in 1992, after a painstaking measured and tedious process of soul-searching and consultation, to launch the Muslim American Society (MAS) in order to complement the work accomplished over the last three decades, and to lay the ground for the Islamic effort needed to face the next century’s challenges.