The Buried Treasures

Season 2 Finale Donate! supportmu.org View the Future Masjid! https://youtu.be/QwO0qwyD5DA Shaykh Ubaydullah Evans is ALIM’s first Scholar-in-Residence. He converted to Islam while in high school. Upon conversion, Shaykh Ubaydullah began studying some of the foundational books of Islam under the private tutelage of local scholars while simultaneously pursuing a degree in journalism from Columbia.   Since then he has studied at Chicagoland’s Institute of Islamic Education (IIE), in Tarim, Yemen, and Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, where he graduated from its Shari’a program. Shaykh Ubaydullah also instructs with the Ta’leef Collective and the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), and Miftaah Institute.   As the ALIM Scholar-in-Residence, Shaykh Ubaydullah is a core instructor at the ALIM Summer Program. He teaches History of Islamic Law, Shama'il, and Aphorisms of Ibn Ata'illah along with other courses. 📧  Contact us at [email protected] Note: Audio will be uploaded on all podcast platforms on Mondays at 6 AM CST. Please visit YouTube.com/MasjidUthman where we upload on Thursdays at 6 PM CST.

Donate! supportmu.org View the Future Masjid! https://youtu.be/QwO0qwyD5DA Shaykh Junayed Ahmed grew up in New York and completed the memorization of the Qur’an at Darul Uloom New York. He had the opportunity to participate in multiple international Qur’an competitions after completing his memorization. Thereafter, Shaykh Junayed started his pursuit for higher learning at DUNY for and completed 4 years of studies. He was then accepted into the College of Qur’an at the Islamic University of Madinah. He is the second American graduate from the College of Qur’an at the Islamic University of Madinah and is an Ashara Qari. Shaykh Junayed currently serves as a Religious Director in Dallas. https://www.instagram.com/jjunayedd/ https://www.youtube.com/c/JunayedAhmed ⏰  Season finale next week! 📧  Contact us at [email protected] Note: Audio will be uploaded on all podcast platforms on Mondays at 6 AM CST. Please visit YouTube.com/MasjidUthman where we upload on Thursdays at 6 PM CST.

Donate! supportmu.org View the Future Masjid! https://youtu.be/QwO0qwyD5DA Mawlana Osman Fuad was born and raised in Houston and began his studies with memorizing the Quran at Masjid Bilal. Soon after completing his hifz he began studying Arabic locally while teaching hifz. He embarked on a six-year study of the Islamic sciences starting in Chicago, and then in Karachi, Pakistan. He studied under many luminaries, the most prominent being Mufti Taqi Uthmani, Mufti Rafi Uthmani, Maulana Mahmoud Ashraf amongst others. Since graduating from Darul Uloom Karachi, he returned to Houston and has been actively teaching in the community. ⏰  New episode every week! 📧  Contact us at [email protected] Note: Audio will be uploaded on all podcast platforms on Mondays at 6 AM CST. Please visit YouTube.com/MasjidUthman where we upload on Thursdays at 6 PM CST.

Donate! supportmu.org  View the Future Masjid! https://youtu.be/QwO0qwyD5DA Mufti Hussain Kamani is an instructor at Qalam. He is a faculty member at the Qalam Seminary. He gives lectures, conducts seminars and workshops, teaches Intensives, and leads Hajj & Umrah groups at Qalam. You can listen to the numerous series that he has recorded on the Qalam Podcast.   He currently resides in Dallas, TX with his wife and four children. He also serves as a resident scholar for the Islamic Association of Carrollton (Masjid Al-Rahman).   Mufti Hussain Kamani was born and raised in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. His journey to pursue sacred Islamic knowledge began at age 6. By the age of 9, he completed the memorization of the Holy Quran. To further advance his studies in the Islamic Sciences, he traveled to the United Kingdom and pursued formal Islamic authorizations (ijazahs). For 7 years, Mufti Kamani studied a rigorous curriculum covering the Arabic language and literature, Islamic jurisprudence, Tafseer of the Holy Qur’an, Hadith, Islamic Philosophy, and Aqeedah. Afterward, he was selected for a post-graduate level course in Islamic Law and Legal Verdicts, which he completed within two years. He later earned his graduate degree in Business Management from the University of Coventry in the UK. ⏰  New episode every week! 📧  Contact us at [email protected] Note: Audio will be uploaded on all podcast platforms on Mondays at 6 AM CST. Please visit YouTube.com/MasjidUthman where we upload on Thursdays at 6 PM CST.

Donate! supportmu.org  View the Future Masjid! https://youtu.be/QwO0qwyD5DA Mufti Asif Umar was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He completed his memorization of the Holy Quran and the intensive Alim course program at the Institute of Islamic Education (IIE) in Elgin, Illinois. At IIE, Mufti Asif received extensive training in Arabic, Quran, Hadith, and Islamic Jurisprudence (including the laws of inheritance), among other subjects. Mufti Asif was fortunate to be among the final students of Shaykhul Hadith Maulana Muhammad Na’eem (Rahmatullahi Alayhi).   Following his graduation in 2007, Mufti Asif enrolled at Madrasah In’aamiyyah in Durban, South Africa, where he completed a 2-year postgraduate course (Iftaa) specializing in Islamic Law, where he acquired the ability to issue legal verdicts under the tutelage of Mufti Ebrahim Desai. Following his time there, he spent several months studying Arabic at Al-Diwan Center in Cairo, Egypt, and independently under the tutelage of scholars at Al-Azhar University.   Upon his return to the United States, Mufti Asif taught Quran and Fiqh at Madinatul Uloom in Virginia before returning to his hometown, St. Louis, where he has served as Imam of the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis since 2012.   https://www.instagram.com/islamicfoundationstl/ https://www.youtube.com/c/IslamicFoundationSTL https://www.facebook.com/islamicfoundationstl/ https://www.instagram.com/stlimam/ ⏰  New episode every week! 📧  Contact us at [email protected] Note: Audio will be uploaded on all podcast platforms on Mondays at 6 AM CST. Please visit YouTube.com/MasjidUthman where we upload on Thursdays at 6 PM CST.

Donate! supportmu.org  View the Future Masjid! https://youtu.be/QwO0qwyD5DA Mufti Wasim Khan was born in Dallas, Texas, and began his journey in Islamic knowledge at a very young age. After spending considerable months improving his Quran recitation at Jami’atul ‘Ilm Wal-Huda in the UK, Mufti Wasim embarked on a decade-long ‘Aalim training program. After studying in 4 different continents, Mufti Wasim graduated in 2010 from Darul Uloom Zakariyya. After graduation, Mufti Wasim studied for an additional 2 years at Darul Uloom Zakariyya to complete the iftaa course (for learning the discipline of giving fatwa) and to further specialize in the sciences of Tafseer, Hadith, and Fiqh – fields in which he holds multiple ijazaat.    Mufti Wasim currently holds the second shortest sanad in the world to the Prophet Mohammed (s) through the sanad of Maulana Makki Hijazi. Amongst his most prominent teachers are Mufti Radha ul Haq, Sheikh Makki Hijazi, Sheikh Shoaib Arnaoot, Sheikh Muhammed Awwamah, and Sheikh Mohammed Ali Saabuni.   In addition to currently serving as the Director and Dean of ISRA Foundation, Mufti Wasim is a regular speaker across North America at conferences, workshops, youth programs, social services events, and development programs. In 2014, Mufti Wasim joined the Institute of Islamic Education in Illinois as a full-time teacher, teaching Aqeedah, Hadith, and Fiqh among other subjects. In 2015, Mufti Wasim presented his thesis on abortion at the American Muslim Jurist Assembly (AMJA), making him the youngest presenter at this conference. Mufti Wasim is extensively involved in Houston and Dallas, TX communities, active in counseling, interfaith work, community representation, and teaching classes at various institutions.   Some of Mufti Wasim’s projects over the past few years include the founding of ISRA Foundation and Khateeb Notes. Mufti Wasim serves as the Vice-President of his family business, Caravan Travel, through which he takes regular Hajj and Umrah groups. ⏰  New episode every week! 📧  Contact us at [email protected] Note: Audio will be uploaded on all podcast platforms on Mondays at 6 AM CST. Please visit YouTube.com/MasjidUthman where we upload on Thursdays at 6 PM CST.

Donate! supportmu.org  View the Future Masjid! https://youtu.be/QwO0qwyD5DA Mawlana Abdullah Syed was born and raised in the Chicagoland area. He began his studies at the Institute of Islamic Education in Elgin, IL. He then transferred to Darul Uloom Zakariyya in South Africa where he completed his Alimiyyah degree in 2017. After returning to America, he went to college in order to pursue his passion of becoming a nurse. Mawlana Abdullah Syed currently is a Registered Professional Nurse in the state of Illinois. Check out Nursing Iman at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6Z57QqrVnq3SP0tX3JeRw ⏰  New episode every week! 📧  Contact us at [email protected] Note: Audio will be uploaded on all podcast platforms on Mondays at 6 AM CST. Please visit YouTube.com/MasjidUthman where we upload on Thursdays at 6 PM CST.

Donate! supportmu.org  View the Future Masjid! https://youtu.be/QwO0qwyD5DA Mawlana Yasir Khan graduated from Darul Uloom Zakariyya, South Africa in 2014 after completing a 7 year seminary course. It was there that he received Ijazas in various fields of Islamic Sciences. During his studies, he interned at various Islamic organizations where he learned about different efforts led by Ulama that can be practiced to benefit those living in America. Since 2014 he has served as an Imam at the Islamic Center of Rancho Cordova, Central Valley Crescent in Modesto, and California Islamic Center in Lodi, CA. Mawlana Yasir Khan founded Al-Misbaah in 2015 with the hopes that it will be a means of Muslim youth preserving their Iman and working to serve their communities. In addition to building the Iman of the people, one of Al-Misbaah’s goals is to serve as a means of dawah, to invite others to the beautiful religion. Check out Al-Misbaah! https://al-misbaah.org/ ⏰  New episode every week! 📧  Contact us at [email protected] Note: Audio will be uploaded on all podcast platforms on Mondays at 6 AM CST. Please visit YouTube.com/MasjidUthman where we upload on Thursdays at 6 PM CST.

Donate! supportmu.org  View the Future Masjid! https://youtu.be/QwO0qwyD5DA Mawlana Yasir Khan graduated from Darul Uloom Zakariyya, South Africa in 2014 after completing a 7 year seminary course. It was there that he received Ijazas in various fields of Islamic Sciences. During his studies, he interned at various Islamic organizations where he learned about different efforts led by Ulama that can be practiced to benefit those living in America. Since 2014 he has served as an Imam at the Islamic Center of Rancho Cordova, Central Valley Crescent in Modesto, and California Islamic Center in Lodi, CA. Mawlana Yasir Khan founded Al-Misbaah in 2015 with the hopes that it will be a means of Muslim youth preserving their Iman and working to serve their communities. In addition to building the Iman of the people, one of Al-Misbaah’s goals is to serve as a means of dawah, to invite others to the beautiful religion.   Check out Al-Misbaah! https://al-misbaah.org/ ⏰  New episode every week! 📧  Contact us at [email protected] Note: Audio will be uploaded on all podcast platforms on Mondays at 6 AM CST. Please visit YouTube.com/MasjidUthman where we upload on Thursdays at 6 PM CST.

Donate! supportmu.org  View the Future Masjid! https://youtu.be/QwO0qwyD5DA Mawlana Hamza Mehter was born and raised in New York. He completed his hifz and went on to pursue an education in the Islamic sciences. He dedicated nine years to these studies in Canada, after which he continued to study at Madrasa Arabia Islamia Azaadville in South Africa. He had the good fortune of spending a lot of time in the company of Mawlana Fazlur Rahman Azmi. Thereafter in 2012, he served as imam at the Islamic Society of West Contra Costa County, Masjid Al Rahman, Richmond, CA, where he remains today. He currently serves as the principal of Universal Mercy Academy. ⏰  New episode every week! 📧  Contact us at [email protected] Note: Audio will be uploaded on all podcast platforms on Mondays at 6 AM CST. Please visit YouTube.com/MasjidUthman where we upload on Thursdays at 6 PM CST.