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Tq2u2 | General KNOWLEDGE's - Beliau dilahirkan di Pulau Caribbean Trinidad pada tahun 1942 dari ibu bapa yang nenek moyang berhijrah sebagai buruh dari India. Beliau adalah lulusan dari Institut Aleemiyah di Karachi dan telah belajar di instutions beberapa pengajian tinggi termasuk Universiti Karachi, Universiti Hindia Barat, Al Azhar University dan Siswazah Institut Perhubungan Antarabangsa di Switzerland.

Beliau bekerja selama beberapa tahun sebagai Pegawai Perkhidmatan Luar di Kementerian Luar Negeri Kerajaan Trinidad dan Tobago tetapi berhenti kerja pada tahun 1985 untuk menumpukan hidupnya untuk misi ISLAM.

Beliau tinggal di New York selama 10 tahun di mana beliau berkhidmat sebagai Pengarah Pengajian Islam bagi Jawatankuasa Bersama Islam Organisasi Greater New York. Beliau memberi syarahan mengenai Islam dalam beberapa di Amerika dan Kanada universiti, kolej2, gereja-gereja, rumah-rumah ibadat, penjara, dewan orang ramai dan lain-lain Beliau juga mengambil bahagian dalam dialog antara agama dengan ulama Kristian dan Yahudi semasa mewakili Islam di Amerika Syarikat. 

Beliau adalah Imam, untuk beberapa ketika, di Masjid Dar al-Qur'an di Long Island, New York. Beliau juga mengetuai solat Juma'ah mingguan dan menyampaikan khutbah itu di Ibu Pejabat Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu di Manhattan sebulan sekali selama sepuluh tahun secara berterusan.

Beliau merupakan Pengetua bekas Aleemiyah Institut Pengajian Islam di Karachi, Pakistan, Pengarah Penyelidikan Kongres DUNIA Islam di Karachi, Pakistan, Pengarah Institut Islam Pendidikan dan Penyelidikan di Miami, Florida, dan Pengarah D'awah untuk Tanzeem-e -Islami Amerika Utara.

Beliau telah mengembara secara berterusan dan meluas di seluruh DUNIA pada tours –kuliah pelancongan Islam sejak menamatkan pengajian dari Aleemiyah Institut Pengajian Islam pada tahun 1971 pada usia 29 thn. 

Dan beliau juga telah menulis buku-buku lebih daripada sedozen pada Islam yang sentiasa diterima berkenaan awam. Sesungguhnya, ‘ Jerusalem dalam Al-Quran - Satu Pandangan Islam daripada Destiny Of Jerusalem’ telah menjadi ‘Best Seller’ dan telah diterjemahkan dan diterbitkan dalam beberapa bahasa.

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He was born in the Caribbean island of Trinidad in 1942 from parents whose ancestors had migrated as indentured labourer from India. He is a graduate of the Aleemiyah Institute in Karachi and has studied at sevaral instutions of higher learning including the University of Karachi,the University of the West Indies, Al Azhar University and the Graduate Institute of International Relations in Switzerland

He worked for several years as a Foreign Service Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago but gave up his job in 1985 to devote his life to the mission Of ISLAM.

He lived in New York for ten years during which time he served as the Director of Islamic Studies for the Joint Committee of Muslim Organizations of Greater New York. He lectured on Islam in several American and Canadian universities, colleges, churches, synagogues, prisons, community halls, etc. 

He also participated in many inter-faith dialogues with Christian and Jewish scholars while representing Islam in USA. He was the Imam, for sometime, at Masjid Dar al-Qur'an in Long Island, New York. He also led the weekly Juma'ah prayers and delivered the sermon at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan once a month for ten years continuously.

He is a former Principal of the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies in Karachi, Pakistan, Director of Research of the World Muslim Congress in Karachi, Pakistan, Director of the Islamic Institute for Education and Research in Miami, Florida, and Director of D'awah for Tanzeem-e-Islami of North America.

He has traveled continuously and extensively around the world on Islamic lecture-tours since graduating from the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies in 1971 at age 29. And he has also written more than a dozen books on Islam that have invariably been received with public respect. Indeed, 'Jerusalem in the Qur'an - An Islamic View of the Destiny of Jerusalem' has become a best seller and has been translated and published in several languages.