HIGHER EDUCATION

For further expertise in usul al-fiqh and ‘ulum al-hadith, his father chose to have his keen and enthusiastic son study with Jami’ al-Ma’qul wa’l-Manqul ‘Allama Muntakhab al-Haqq al-Qadiri. During 1978-79 he stayed in Karachi and studied contemporary Arabic with the two Azhari scholars, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Jawwad and Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ghani. Upon returning from Karachi, he completed MA (Arabic) at the University of the Punjab. After his marriage in 1979, within a year he traveled to the holy city of Makka (KSA) and enrolled in Umm al-Qura University and for the next five years gained expertise in Islamic Law. He returned to his homeland in 1985.