Shaykh Omar Subedar

Shaykh Omar Subedar was born and raised in Toronto , Canada . In 1990 he was inspired by a very close friend to memorize the entire Qur’an and enrolled in the renowned ‘ Institute of Islamic Education ’, located in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, U.K. Upon committing the entire Qur’an to memory in 1993 he decided to further his Islamic education by taking the institutes’ Master of Arts program on Islamic Sciences. In this program the Shaykh studied;

• Arabic grammar, morphology, semantics, vocabulary and literature.
• Islamic Creed (aqeeda)
• Exegesis (tafseer) of the Qur’an and the science of exegesis.
• Islamic Jurisprudence (fiqh) of the Hanafi School (madhab). Comparative studies on all 4 recognized schools (Hanafi, Shafi’ee, Malik and Hanbali) and the science of juristic methodology (usul al fiqh).
• Prophetic Traditions (hadith) and the science of hadith.
• Islamic History
• Pronunciation of the Qur’an (tajweed) and the science of intonation of the Qur’an according to all the ten major recitations (qira’aat).

By the grace of Allah the Shaykh graduated from the program in 2001 with an average of 93% in his final exams and was granted a scholarly license from the institute.

Upon his return the Shaykh taught at the Shariah Program for 3 years. Currently he is the Imam of Jame Makki Masjid Brampton, the executive member of ‘The Canadian Council of Muslim Theologians’, the secretary general of ‘The Halal Monitoring Authority’ and ateacher at takemetoumrah .com and an instructor at the Mathabah Foundation.