Journey of Fiqh is a subject on the history of the development of the science of Fiqh or Islamic Jurisprudence and is based on a unit from the highly acclaimed and easy-to-understand Ta’heel Fiqhi courses in Arabic. This course has been studied by tens of thousands of Arabic students and found to be extremely beneficial and hence it will be delivered to English speaking seekers of sacred knowledge. This unit simplifies the complexities of the History of Fiqh, various stages of its development and the hierarchy of scholars and works in each school of jurisprudence. The aim of this unit is that students, develop an appreciation of the hard work, sincerity, genius and above all the acceptance by Allah Ta’laa of past ulama and we enter the study of fiqh with a positive frame of mind, have confidence of those great authorities and hopefully benefit from their knowledge.
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Course Instructor
Shaykh Khalid Shah
Mufti Khalid was born in Brazil to Pakistani parents and raised in Australia. His late father Maulana Gul Saeed Shah was an Aalim and Imam. After obtaining a Bachelors of Information Systems from Monash University, he devoted his time to the study at Darul Ulum (Melbourne) and with his father, he completed the 6 years Aalim course in 2009. During the same period, he completed Masters in TESOL (Teaching English to speakers of other languages).
He completed his Mufti course with Al-Balagh Academy (UK) researching and writing fatwas in both Hanafi and Hanbali madhhabs. He currently is studying and deepening his understanding of all aspects of the Hanbali madhhab under Shaykh Dr. Faris bin Falih al-Khazraji (originally of Mosul, Iraq but currently based in Konya, Turkey).
Mufti Khalid is passionate about Classical Islamic education and furthering its establishment in Australia especially in the establishment of maktabs and madrasas. He is the founder and principal of Kashiful Uloom, where he teaches daily. He is the Imam and Khatib at UMMA centre, Doncaster East and oversees UMMA’s maktab and teaches adult classes. Furthermore, he has taught several courses for Al-Balagh Academy (UK), WISE English (UK), PGCC (Australia) and Melbourne Muslim Seminary (Australia). He has also translated and published 3 books available on Amazon.