The Muslim Educational Society (MES) is an organisation established to aid education of Muslims in India, especially in the state of Kerala. Traditionally Muslims living in Kerala were traders and agrarians living in villages and were never allowed to enter into the mainstream of the social fabric of Kerala because of their backwardness. Educating a Muslim boy or girl was something beyond the means of the poor Muslim parents and they felt that they had no right to acquire education because it was confined to the elite class only. Because of this attitude among the Muslims, the community remained in the dark cells of ignorance and deprivation.