2021 Speakers

Meet Our Speakers

We are so grateful for having great Imams to speak at the Muslim Retreat.

Shaykh Huzaifa Hamirani currently serves as an Imam at Islamic Society of Greenville South Carolina.
Shaykh Huzaifa studied the traditional Islamic sciences for 6 years abroad in the city of the Prophet (S), Al Madinah Al Munawarrah with many distinguished scholars and professors, and received a diploma in Arabic and a bachelors degree in comparative Islamic Law and Legal Philosophy from the Islamic University of Madinah. He also studied in the Prophets Mosque, Masjid Nabawi and received several diplomas and teaching licenses (ijāzāt) in the various disciplines.

Imam Haque has served as an Imam and Islamic teacher at various Masajids in West Virginia, Texas, and South Carolina.
Imam Haque graduated with extensive education in Sharia’h, with grounding and competency in traditional Islamic knowledge that included Qur’anic studies, Hadith, Fiqh, Theology/Aqidah Seerah, and Islamic History.
Additionally, Dr. Haque has earned masters in Urdu and Arabic languages followed by a Ph.D. in Arabic Language and Literature from Aligarh Muslim University (India).
Imam Ehteshamul Haque is passionate about transmitting traditional Islamic knowledge to Muslim families, children, and youth; and, especially, to newly reverted Muslims.
Dr. Haque actively engaged in interfaith dialogue and programs when serving as an Imam in Charleston, West Virginia.
He is happily married with two children, a 12-year-old son, and a 6-year-old daughter.

Imam Jawad was born in Pakistan and grew up in New York City. He memorized the Quran at Muslim Center of New York between the ages of 13-15. He then began Islamic Studies privately throughout high school and college.
At the age of 16, he delivered his first khutbah in Jamaica, Queens.
He is also the former Imam of Masjid At-Taqwa in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he remained four years.
Imam Jawad also holds a bachelor’s degree in Media and Communications Arts with a major in Film and Video Production and an unofficial minor in Political Science from City College of New York. He studied these subjects in order to counter the narrative against Islam prevalent in media today.
He currently serves as the Imam of Islamic Society of Augusta.

Shaykh Anis is the Imam & Religious Director at the Islamic Society of Greater Charlotte and teacher at Charlotte Islamic Academy. He graduated with a Bachelor’s in Islamic Law and Jurisprudence from the Islamic University of Madinah. He is also a certified chaplain through the Prophet’s mosque in Madinah, KSA and has multiple ijazahs (teaching qualifications) in various sacred sciences from scholars of Masjid Nabwi and around the world. He received his diploma in Arabic language from the University of Madinah.
He completed a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Houston in 2012. Born in New York and raised in Houston, Texas, Shaykh Anis memorized the Quran at the age of 10 after which he led taraweeh for over 16 years and taught the Quran at various mosques around Houston.
After teaching in Malaysia and Houston, TX, he and his wife started their own business, MyKidsHQ.com, which provides quality Islamic educational resources like books, toys, and a children-oriented podcast as well as a parent-oriented podcast. He currently resides in Charlotte, NC with his wife and 3 children.

Ustadh Gohar was born in Pakistan then moved to St. Louis, Missouri at the age of three with his parents and four older brothers. At age 13 he decided he wanted to do hifz and become an islamic scholar, thus enrolling in a part time hifz program alongside highschool. He attended public school which helped him understand the many challenges the youth face from being obedient to parents, dealing with the opposite gender, and peer pressure forcing them to commit obscene acts. Alongside his hifz journey he would give regular weekly khutbahs at the Islamic Foundation of Greater St.Louis from the age 17. At age 20 he then started his journey in Islamic sciences which he began in Jamia’tul Hussnain in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Maulana Iqbal was born in Colorado springs, Colorado and moved to Arlington, Texas as an infant where he was raised. While memorizing the Holy Quran he decided he needed to dedicate his life to study Islamic Studies in depth. His diverse background encouraged him a lot to pursue that path as most of his maternal relatives were still Christians and he wanted to engage with them in discussions of the in-depth knowledge of Islam. Therefore, He enrolled at Jamiatul Husanain in Indianapolis. With the grace of Allah he studied for 5 years covering from advanced Arabic literature to the tafseer of the Holy Quran, Sciences of Hadith, Interfaith and comparative religion, Fiqh and Laws of Jurisprudence and Aqeedah. He further pursued his studies in pakistan at Al husnain where he completed the Alimiyyah program. He studied with many scholars and benefited immensely from Maulana Tariq Jamil, Maulana Ubaidullah, Sheikh Ramzi Al Habib, along with others. He is currently an instructor at ICC/Falah and head of ICC dawah activities.