What is the Omar Center?

The Omar Center for Awareness and Understanding is a non-profit organization established in Michigan to promote awareness and understanding among communities. Struggling against injustice means to honor, defend, and assist those victims of poverty, oppression, prejudice, and discrimination.

The Omar Center for Awareness and Understanding is inspired from the famous saying of the Caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab who said "When have you enslaved the people who their mothers have bore them as free men?" In this famous story Omar empowered a young man who suffered injustice at the hands of the son of the governor and with the silence of his father the governor. Omar regained this young man's rights and dignity to set an example of justice, for which he was known as Al-Farooq (meaning the one who distinguishes right from wrong). 

It was Omar's justice that became the model for the United Nations Universal Declaration for Human Rights that declared all men are born free.

The Omar Center seeks to honor those values by providing charitable, religious, educational, and other related services and activities to various communities. Some of these services and activities include providing food, clothing and other charitable items to the needy and/or disadvantaged communities, as well as educational programs and religious services and activities to promote awareness and understanding.

Struggling against injustice means to honor, defend, and assist those victims of poverty, oppression, prejudice, and discrimination. The Omar Center seeks to honor those values by providing charitable, religious, educational, and other related services and activities to various communities. Some of these services and activities include providing food, clothing and other charitable items to the needy and/or disadvantaged communities, as well as educational programs and religious services and activities to promote awareness and understanding.

2023 Annual Eid Al-Fitr Celebration

The Omar Center for Awareness and Understanding is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in Michigan. Donations are tax-deductible and Zakat-permissible.