5th Annual Fundraising Dinner 2010

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Keynote Speaker: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Faraz Rabbani is a researcher and teacher of the Islamic sciences, specializing in Islamic Law. He is the Educational Director of SeekersGuidance; a teacher with The Razi Institute a board member and teacher with Bukhari Institute and a columnist for Islamica Magazine. He has two published books: Sufism & Good Character and Absolute Essentials of Islam: Faith, Prayer, and the Path of Salvation According to the Hanafi School. (White Thread Press, 2004.)

Shaykh Faraz obtained a Bachelor's in Economics & Commerce from the University of Toronto in 1997. Subsequently, he studied and taught the Islamic sciences in Damascus, Amman, and Karachi for ten years, under leading Islamic scholars, including Shaykh Adib Kallas, Shaykh Hassan al-Hindi, Shaykh Muhammad Jumuah, Shaykh Akram Abd al-Wahhab, Shaykh Nuh Keller, and Mufti Mahmud Ashraf Usmani.

In November 2007 Shaykh Faraz Rabbani partnered with Rami Nashashibi and presented an evening of informal discussion with young men, many of whom are "at-risk" or potentially "at risk" of educational under achievement, criminality and anti-social behaviour, from the Mile End area (east end of London England). Issues explored included Islamic chivalry and good adhab (manners).

In the last nine years, he has answered over 50,000 questions (MashaAllah) related to sensitive life situations, first through Sunnipath.com, and now through SeekersGuidance.