Neighbors helping neighbors
Not clients and case files — people and their neighbors. We help the way you'd help someone on your own street: quickly, and without a lecture.
Our Story · Since 2003
A few neighbors, a real need, and no excuse not to help.
For more than twenty years, a handful of volunteers on Morgan Avenue have answered one plain question with their hands: who's looking after the neighbor nobody else is? This is how it started — and why it hasn't stopped.
Our name
Named for the chapter that measures your faith by your neighbor.
Al-Ma'un is the 107th chapter of the Qur'an — short, and pointed. It warns that prayer without mercy is empty, and it names the failing plainly: turning away the orphan, and withholding al-ma'un.
Al-Ma'un is the little stuff of daily life — a bucket someone borrows, a cup of salt, a bit of help you could easily give and simply choose not to. The surah says: withhold even that, and something is wrong at the root.
So we took the name as our whole job description. Not grand gestures — the small kindnesses, handed neighbor to neighbor, day after day.
فَوَيْلٌ لِّلْمُصَلِّينَ … وَيَمْنَعُونَ الْمَاعُونَ
“…who are heedless of their prayer — and withhold al-Ma'un, small kindnesses.”
Qur'an · Surah Al-Ma'un 107
“Neighborly Needs”
Faith you can see
Mercy, made practical
Heritage & history
Half a century on the Westside.
Al-Maun didn't come from nowhere. It grew out of a house of worship that has stood with this neighborhood since long before it had many friends downtown.
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Early 1970s
Roots on the Westside
Long before the strip malls and the freeway, a small Muslim community put down roots in the Historic Westside — then known as Masjid Muhammad. From the start, faith here meant showing up for the block.
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1975
Becoming Masjid As-Sabur
Under the leadership of Imam W. Deen Mohammed, the community transitioned into mainstream Sunni Islam and took the name Masjid As-Sabur — “the Patient.” It stands today as the oldest mosque in Las Vegas.
Over the years its doors have welcomed neighbors and notables alike — among them Muhammad Ali.
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2003
Al-Maun is founded
Imam Fateen and Sister Nisaa Seifullah (raḥimahā Allāh) launched Al-Maun (Neighborly Needs) as the masjid's service arm — a way to answer Surah Al-Ma'un with donated meals, groceries, and a hand up for anyone who knocked. Muslim or not.
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After Hurricane Katrina
Relief that got noticed
When Katrina displaced families across the Gulf, Al-Maun mobilized — and the relief work earned national recognition. The attention was never the point; the neighbor in front of us always was.
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Today
Twenty years & counting
Two decades on, Al-Maun runs six programs — including a Humanitarian Day that serves 500+ neighbors in a single afternoon — still powered by volunteers, still on Morgan Avenue.
From the archives
Photos courtesy of Masjid As-Sabur.
What we stand on
A short list we actually live by.
No mission statement gathering dust on a wall. Four ideas, and you can watch us keep them every single week.
Dignity first
A hot plate served with a smile, not a sigh. No means test at the door, no hoops to jump through — just care handed over like you matter, because you do.
Everyone's welcome
Muslim & non-Muslim, housed & unhoused, neighbor & stranger. If you're hungry or hurting, you're exactly who we're here for. No questions asked.
Community-led, not bureaucratic
Run by the block, for the block. Decisions get made by the people doing the work — so help moves at the speed of a neighbor, not a form in triplicate.
The people
Founded by neighbors. Still run by them.
Al-Maun has never had a corner office. It has an imam, a co-founder, a board, and a whole lot of people in green aprons who keep showing up.
Imam Fateen Seifullah
Imam & Co-founder
Spiritual leader of Masjid As-Sabur and a co-founder of Al-Maun — the steady voice behind “serve the neighbor first, ask questions never.”
In loving memory
Sister Nisaa Seifullah
Co-founder of Al-Maun
رحمها الله
The organizing heart of the work — from the food pantry to the classes of Nisaa's Academy that carry her name, she gave two decades to turning compassion into logistics for her neighbors. Her sadaqah continues in every meal served on the block.
Innā lillāhi wa innā ilayhi rājiʿūn — may Allah have mercy on her and grant her Jannah.
In partnership
Powered with our partners
Our biggest days run on partnership. We work with organizations across Las Vegas and throughout the USA, and their support helps us serve 500+ neighbors in a single afternoon. We’re proud to stand with the Al-Ma’un Foundation and our home masjid, Masjid As-Sabur.
Our board & volunteers
A volunteer board and dozens of neighbors in green aprons — teens sorting Kits 4 Kidz, seniors staffing the pantry, families serving meals. This is who Al-Maun really is.
Where the money goes
Every dollar stays on the Westside.
We under-ask and over-deliver. Al-Maun is a registered non-profit, stewarded by volunteers — so your gift doesn't vanish into overhead. It becomes a meal, a cooling fan, a family kept in their home, right here on the block.
Registered 501(c)(3)
EIN 32-0087926
Zakat-eligible & tax-deductible
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Join the story
You're a neighbor too. Pull up a chair.
Give, serve, or simply come pray with us. There's a place for you in the next twenty years.
Donate
Turn a small kindness into a bag of groceries, a hygiene kit, or a cooling fan in a 110° desert. Every dollar stays local.
Give nowVolunteer
Pull on a green apron. Serve meals, sort kits, staff the pantry — first-timers and families welcome.
Get involvedBe a sponsor
Businesses and neighbors can power a whole program — a Humanitarian Day, a season of Nisaa’s Academy, or a month of grocery deliveries.
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