Biography of Darul Uloom Ulama principal Mufti Umar Inayatullah Hanifah al-Maturidi al-Hanafi
Mufti Umar Inayatullah Hanifah al-Maturidi al-Hanafi, Founder and principal of Darul Uloom “Darul Uloom Ulama,” Islamic non-profit organization “ConcerningIslam.org” and “The An-Nisa Foundation for Women and Children,” is an American Islamic jurist and scholar, and consultant on religious affairs with specialized knowledge of the Islamic faith. His organization offers both basic and comprehensive Islamic education as well as his consulting expertise. His organization also support more than 50 organizations worldwide, responsible for the medical treatment, food distribution, and basic housing of impoverished men, women and children of all religious faiths all around the world. Mufti Umar is also a donor and serious philanthropist himself who has produced over 1,000 voluntary community service hours.
Mufti Umar has extensive experience as a consultant for a wide range of hosts on personal and Islamic jurisprudence (legal) issues with his passion being in the science of Islamic principles (Usul) and Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh), and as a Christian convert to Islam with an intense devotion to the religion of Islam, he is widely respected and admired among world-renowned Traditional and Contemporary Islamic scholars.
Always involved in religious activity and faith, Mufti Umar was born on November 19, 1412 AH (1990 CE) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, starting life as a Native American spiritualist turned Christian, the youngest of 2 brothers and sisters. By the age of 9, Mufti Umar began teaching philosophy and religion and proselytizing under the permission of his then human rights activist grandmother who was widely known for debating famous activists and various religious officials, and even himself took up some of her battles and debates at the age of 9 winning his first debate. And at the age of 11, Mufti Umar joined an Evangelical church and until the age of 18 involved himself in full-time Evangelical youth-ministry/missionary activities in the Christian religion, before living with a Jewish family and becoming learned in Judaism while serving in the military in 2010.
With his love for religious studies and deep interest in all aspects of philosophy and religious faith, he then studied Catholicism (following the untimely death of his then significant other), gained a formal education in Christian and Biblical studies at the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and then went into Islamic Studies in 2009 before officially converting to the Islamic faith in 2013. A forever student of religion, Mufti Umar earned his first certification in Islamic Studies in 2014 after his conversion, is a graduate of a well-known Islamic Studies University, and currently teaches a wide range of Islamic and Arabic related subjects including Tajwid (Recitation Rules of the Holy Qur’an), Tafsir (Interpretation and Understanding of the Verses of the Holy Qur’an), Usul al-Fiqh (Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence), Sirah (Biographical Information of the Prophet Muhammad), Khilaf al-Aqidah (Methodology of the Traditional Schools of Islamic Theology), Khilaf al-Fiqh (Methodology of the Traditional Schools of Islamic Jurisprudence), Usul al-Hadith (Principles of Hadith Science), Tarikh al-Islamiyyah (Islamic History), as well as Comparative Religion, Philosophy, and Quantum Physics.
Some interesting details about Mufti Umar:
Mufti Umar became Muslim on the day of Jummuah
Mufti Umar became Muslim in the month of Ramadan
Mufti Umar became Muslim on the day of the Battle of Badr
Mufti Umar became Muslim on the day the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) entered Madinah (modern day Saudi Arabia)
Mufti Umar was born on the birth day of the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him)
Mufti Umar was born on the day the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) received his first Wahy (revelation) of the Qur’an
Mufti Umar was born on the day the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) began his immigration from Makkah to Madinah (now Madinah, Saudi Arabia)
Also, to date, Mufti Umar has over 5,000 ijazahs (licenses) to transmit ancient Islamic knowledge and ancient Islamic texts (granted to him by senior Islamic scholars), is a collecter of several ancient Islamic manuscripts, and is certified in subjects related to the Qur’an including the Hafs Qur’an (Hafs reading of the Qur’an), Hadith, Fiqh, Tafsir, Adab, Ta’leem, and many other subjects, and is a big proponent of Classical Islamic teaching and learning methods such as the Talaqqi/Halaqah and Ijazah/Sanad learning methods. Having been granted Ijazah, Mufti Umar is a student of the students of the students of the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) himself and the student of over 2,000 Islamic scholars worldwide. Mufti Umar has also studied Deism, Shintoism, Esoteric Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Sikhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Gnosticism, Animism, and many other religions and ways of life.
Mufti Umar is also a Hafiz al-Qur’an, Hafiz of Hadith (knowing over 100,000 hadith), and plans to spend his entire career issuing legal edicts (verdicts) within the Islamic legal system as a Mufti with the highest level of Islamic authority and plans to take the office of Qadi (Judge) in a 2021 local election.
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