Our Instructors

Tawfique Chowdhury

Sheikh Tawfique Chowdhury is the Chairman and CEO of Mercy Mission. He has, from an early age, excelled in academic studies, consistently being awarded prizes and accolades for his various achievements. Sheikh...

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Alaa Elsayed

Sheikh Alaa was born in Cairo and lived in Egypt until he was 15 years old. During his youth, he spent his time as the goalie for the Junior National Team and moved to Toronto, Canada, in the late 1970’s....

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Bilal Ismail

Sheikh Bilal Ismail was born in Durban, South Africa. He is one of three siblings and comes from a religious deobandi tableeghi family. He memorized the Qurʾan while studying at school and went on to complet...

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Sajid Ahmed Umar

Sheikh Sajid was born in Leicester, UK. He attended primary and secondary school and college in Harare (Zimbabwe), where he studied IT and obtained a first class degree. Having memorised the Qurʾan at the age ...

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Yahya Ibrahim

Ustadh Yahya Ibrahim was born in Waterloo, Canada. In his quest for authentic, classical Islamic knowledge, he travelled to meet and studied under some of the most prominent scholars of our era. While attending...

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Abu Abdissalam

Abu Abdissalam was born in the central English town of Coventry and was raised in London. Graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the City University in London, his zeal for knowledge...

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Mohammed Cheppih

Ustadh Mohammed Cheppih was born in Morocco, into a family in which religious studies held great significance, and in a country where memorisation of the Qurʾan is part of daily life. His ancestors were his gr...

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Tariq Appleby

Tariq Appleby was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. His family background is a mix of Malay, Indian and European descent; his great grandfather was English. After completing High school Tariq attend...

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Isam Rajab

Dr Isam Rajab was born in Kuwait and graduated with a BA in Sharīʿah from the Islamic University of Madinah. He holds a Masters and Ph.D in Islamic Studies from California University. Dr Isam has over 10 yea...

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Hacene Chebbani

Sheikh Hacene Chebbani was born in Algeria and has been living in Canada for the last 13 years. In 1993 he graduated in Sharīʿah (BA) from the Islamic University of Madinah with a grade of excellence. While t...

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Hamza Tzortzis

Hamza Andreas Tzortzis is an international public speaker on Islam. He is a writer, having authored articles, essays and commentaries on political philosophy, the philosophy of religion and society. Ustadh Hamz...

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Abdurrahmann Murad

Sheikh Abdurrahmann was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada.  He completed high school and a number of IT courses there and pursued his Islamic studies at Imam University, Riyadh, completing his Arabic an...

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Abdul Majid

Sheikh Abdul Majid Ali Hasan Bapu was born in Mumbai, India. He has completed a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Calicut in Kerala in 1997, and an M.A. in Islamic studies and Arabic literature from Osma...

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Abu Taubah

Abu Taubah was born and raised in New York, he comes from an educated family where his mother was an English teacher turned Principal and his father a politician. He grew up with a love...

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Ehsan Abdullah

Ehsan Abdullah Hannan studied Arabic and Sharīʿah at the Islamic University of Madinah in the early nineties. There he studied ḥadīth and fiqh under Sheikh Muhammad al-Mukhtār al-Shinqīṭī and his stud...

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Fraz Farhat

Sheikh Fraz Farhat was born in Pakistan and grew up in the UK were he currently resides. He is married with three children. Sheikh Fraz graduated in Engineering from Leeds University, he then went on to study ...

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Furqan Jabbar

Furqan Jabbar was born in Melbourne, Australia. Upon completing high school in Melbourne he studied Arabic and Islamic studies for one year in Karachi, Pakistan. In 2002, he completed a diploma in Arabic studi...

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Imtiyaz Damiel

Abu Abd Allah Imtiyaz Damiel was born in Blackburn, England, and is married with two children. He completed five years of an Alim training course as well as his A-levels in Blackburn, and then went on to comple...

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Musleh Khan

Ustadh Musleh Khan was born in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. He was raised and is currently residing in Toronto, Canada. At college he studied computer programming and then went to work as a Fraud analyst. ‬‪​I...

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Nabeel Ul Haq

Nabeel Shahzad Ul-Haq was born and raised in the United Kingdom. He studied at University College London where he received a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science. Thereafter he was awarded a scholarship to study at t...

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