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 Abdullah Jaber is a community activist, educator, and imam with degrees in Arabic and Islamic law. As the Executive Director, Imam Abdullah oversees the strategic vision and direction of CAIR-Florida.
Before joining us at CAIR-Florida, Br. Abdullah was most recently the Executive Director of CAIR-Georgia. Before that, he served as a resident scholar and imam in Los Angeles, California and Atlanta, Georgia.
Outside of his work commitments, Imam Abdullah is an avid reader and fragrance aficionado.

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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.