The primary objective of the MMO as stated in its Act of Incorporation are:

• To love, foster and cherish needy Muslim orphans according to the tenets of the Islamic Sharieth.
  
  
• To promote the Islamic way of life amongst such orphans by imparting religious knowledge to them.
  
  
• To educate such orphans.
  
  
• To construct, maintain, manage, establish and promote orphanages, homes hospitals, dispensaries clinics, and vocational and secular training centres to house and serve such orphans until they find meaningful employment.
  
  
• To collect funds and to accept endowments and building materials for the construction of orphanages and homes and the maintenance thereof, from benefactors in Sri Lanka and abroad.
  
  
• To do all such acts and things as are incidental or conducive to the accomplishment of the above objects or any one of them.