ABOUT MWF
Muslim Wellness Foundation (MWF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing healing, emotional well-being, and collective care in American Muslim communities through dialogue, education, training, research, and community-centered practice.
As MWF marks its 15th anniversary in 2026, its guiding theme is Rasikh: What We Carry Forward. Rasikh speaks to rootedness in knowledge, faith, and moral clarity. It names MWF’s ongoing commitment to care that is spiritually grounded, community-based, and liberatory. Through its SelebeYoon paradigm, MWF continues to develop healing-centered models of research, education, leadership, and community engagement that attend to the links between oppression and wellness while also affirming joy, resilience, creativity, and belonging.
Today, Muslim Wellness Foundation stands as a leading voice in wellness, healing justice, and community-based knowledge production. Across its programs, research initiatives, and public scholarship, MWF remains committed to building communities of care where American Muslims—especially Black Muslims and other historically marginalized communities—can heal, grow, thrive, and carry forward the stories, practices, and relationships that sustain us.
The Omar ibn Said Institute and the Black Muslim Psychology Conference serve as shining example of MWF's innovative leadership and community service.
Omar ibn Said Institute
In 2021, MWF established the Omar ibn Said Institute for Black Muslim Studies & Research as a division of the organization. Named in honor of Omar ibn Said [1770-1863], a West African Muslim scholar whose intellect and faith endured through enslavement in North Carolina, the Said Institute extends MWF’s healing-centered mission into research, archival recovery, public scholarship, cultural preservation, and narrative justice. The Institute advances Black Muslim histories, voices, and ways of knowing as sacred sources of wisdom, resilience, and healing. Its work is organized around remembrance, reconnection, and reclamation: honoring the past, bridging the present, and shaping futures rooted in truth, dignity, and self-determination.
