MAS Youth Committee

This document sheds light on the MAS Youth activities that aim at the development and empowerment of the Youth body of the Urbana-Champaign community.

MAS Youth Vision:

MAS Youth as a division of MAS is giving roots, nurturing, and establishing organized and efficient, movement oriented Islamic work amongst all segments of youth based on the comprehensive understanding of Islam.

MAS Youth Mission Statement:

To move young people to strive for God-consciousness and social justice and convey Islam with utmost clarity.

Flash Presentation: http://www.masyouth.net/mission/mission.swf

MAS Youth Audience:

Our audience is young people who reside in the United States of America (citizens, immigrants, workers, students, etc) regardless of ethnicity, place of origin and religion; and who are in the age group equivalent to the high-school stage, college stage and young professional stage. A young professional is someone who is starting his post graduate life.

Postulates:
  1. Islam is the primary source of guidance for Muslims in all our daily life diversified affairs [Spiritual, Moral, Social, Economic, political, etc.]
  2. The Islamic Shari’ah is valid for every time and place.
  3. The Islamic Shari’ah is composed of “Fundamentals and Constants”, which cannot be altered or changed, and “Variables”, which are liable for changes and modifications.
  4. Abiding by the Shari’ah of Allah and developing/maintaining high level of spiritual relationship with Allah (swt) provide guaranteed sources of success and tranquility in this life and in the Hereafter
  5. We will not be able to worship Allah correctly the way He (swt) accepts until we gain the pertinent knowledge. Therefore, learning the teachings/rules of the Shari’ah is the only way to achieve the wisdom behind out creation. The Prophet (pbuh) made “Seeking knowledge mandatory for every Muslim male and female”.
  6. Positive & responsible Citizenship is an Islamic mandate aiming at sharing in the comprehensive societal reform process.
Objective:
  1. Increasing the awareness of the youth body of the different necessary areas of Islamic knowledge (Creed, Fiqh, Quran, Sunnah, Seerah, Morals and Dealings, History, Dawa, etc.) and raising its level of abidance by the Shari3ah in its day-to-day affairs.
  2. Raising up the spiritual level of the youth body and developing its relationship with Allah (swt).
  3. Empowering and cultivating the culture and the sense of volunteerism, citizenship, civic engagement & political activism among the youth body.
  4. Providing technical support & counseling in the areas of youth issues & parents-youth relationships.
  5. Creating positive Muslim environment for effective Youth buddy groups.
Planned Activities
  • High School Program:
    1. Spiritual: Qiam-ul-Lail program in the Masjid, etc.
    2. Educational: Islamic Study Circles, Information Competitions, etc. for Islamic & General Knowledge, etc.
    3. Sports/Social: Open Gyms, Picnics, Field Trips, Outings & Camps, etc.
    4. Dawa & Activism: Community Services, Interfaith Meetings, etc.
  • Campus Program:
    1. Spiritual: Qiam-ul-Lail program in the Masjid, etc.
    2. Educational: Campus Islamic Study Circles, Online Information Circulation and thru Email list, Online Tele/videoconferences, Certification Workshops on Shariah Topics, Training sessions on skills building, Activism & Pre-Marital Orientation.
    3. Sports/Social: Open Gyms, Picnics, Field Trips, Outings, Camps, etc.
    4. Dawa & Activism: Community Services, Interfaith Meetings, etc.

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