Moeen Ali wore "Save Gaza" and "Free Palestine" wristbands about the Gaza conflict during day 2 of the third Test match of the 2014 series against India. The ICC code bars players from "conveying messages which relate to political, religious or racial activities or causes". According to the ECB, Moeen's stance was "humanitarian, not political" and a spokesman stated that "the ECB do not believe he has committed any offence." Although Moeen had been cleared by the ECB to wear the bands, the decision was overruled by the match referee, David Boon.

Ali is an Ambassador of StreetChance, a program providing free weekly cricket coaching sessions in deprived areas in the UK, run by the Cricket Foundation and Barclays Spaces for Sports. In January 2015, he joined Orphans in Need, an international NGO, as a Global Brand Ambassador and carried the charity's logo on his bat. Speaking after his stint at the crease, Moeen Ali said, “I enjoy coming back to the community where I grew up playing tapeball cricket. It keeps you grounded. I hope that, as an ambassador for the charity, I can pass on some useful advice and help inspire children like the ones here today involved in StreetChance. “It’s so important that schemes like StreetChance give young people the opportunity to play cricket and to learn key life skills, wherever they’re from, whatever their background.”

Munir Ali played an excellent role as a parent to encourage Moeen Ali in this career. His encouragement has a made Moeen renounced around the globe as “The man with a beard who plays for England.” Moeen mentions his father’s words in his interview which encouraged his to keep up with his dreams at the delicate age of 15. Off the pitch, life progressed smoothly. Moeen met his wife while playing in Bangladesh and was married at 21. His son, named Abu Bakr (in honor of Prophet Muhammad's companion and father-in-law), was born a few years later, and nowadays, aged two, he runs around with a little bat and a bowling action reminiscent of Lasith Malinga. Moeen Ali has falls in the category of the richest cricketer in England with the net worth of seven hundred thousand euros.