Mawlana Faraz Abdul Moid is a native of Chicago. He completed his Hifz al-Qur’an at the Institute of Islamic Education (IIE). He graduated high-school from CPSA and enrolled in St. Louis University, St. Louis MO, as he was selected as a student in the Medical Scholars Program. He later completed his undergraduate education at the University of Illinois at Chicago in psychology and pre-health sciences. After graduation, he worked as an educator at a middle school and high school in Milwaukee, WI and later taught tajwid and hifz as part of Sacred Learning’s Quran program.
Mawlana Faraz Began study of sacred sciences at DarusSalam Foundation, Lombard IL. He received Ijāzah in Tajweed & Qira’ah of Hafs ʿan ʿAṣim from Mawlana Ahteramul Haque and completed 2 years of coursework in the Alimiyyah program: Arabic grammar, morphology, literature, Islamic law, theology, Quranic translation, Urdu language. He later transferred and continued studies at Darul Qasim’s Intermediate & Advanced program which included Arabic grammar, rhetoric, literature, Islamic law, legal theory, logic, discursive theology, Quranic sciences, exegesis, hadith sciences, hadith.
He studied hadith and received ijāzāt from Darul Qasim hadith lecturers in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhāri from Shaykh Amin Kholwadia; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, Sunan al-Tirmidhī, Sunan al-Nasāʾī, and Sunan Ibn Mājah from Mawlana AbdurRahman Hājī; al-Muwaṭṭā of Imām Mālik and of Imām Muhammad al-Shaybānī from Mufti Ehzaz Ajmeri; Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Sharḥ Maʿānī al-Āthār, and Sunan al-Tirmidhī from Mawlana Bilal Ali; Sunan Abī Dāwūd from Mufti Hisham Dawud; al-Shamāʾil al-Muḥammadiyyah of Imām al-Tirmidhī from Shaykh Zakariyya b. Ahmad al-Ṭālib al-Makkī. He also has ijāzāt in musalsalāt and other hadith collections from other scholars.Mawlana Faraz studied Hujjatullah al-Balighah over 2 years with Shaykh Amin, and is currently continuing its study.
After completing hadīth studies, matriculated into the Takhaṣṣuṣ fī al-Tafsīr program, specializing in tafsīr under Shaykh Amin Kholwadia, Mawlana Kamil Uddin, and Shaykh Issam Eido.He is currently working on its thesis under the supervision of Mawlana Kamil Uddin. Mawlana Faraz is currently as faculty at DQC and is a lecturer, teaching courses in Islamic law, Quranic exegesis, and Arabic and an Assistant Dean of Students.
