Maulana Ibrahim Raqeeb was born in Fairfax, Virginia. His father was very concerned about his Islamic upbringing. Therefore, his family moved to South Africa and then to Pakistan. He became a Hafiz of the Holy Quran at the age of 12 and pursued his basic Islamic Education. He developed the desire to bring Islam to the American society and wanted to fulfill the dream of his father (who passed away رحمه الله ) so he enrolled in Jamia Hasanain in Indiana where he studied the Alamiyyah program for five years. He completed courses in Arabic, Quranic sciences, jurisprudence and more then went on to pursue further education in Pakistan where he enrolled in Jamiatul Hasanain in Faisalabad and completed the six books of Ahadith under the great scholars, Maulana Tariq Jameel, Maulana Ubaidullah and Sheikh Ramzi. He received his Ijaza in Ahadith from many great scholars with the help of his mother who worked tirelessly to see her son become a great scholar of Islam. May Allah continue to give him tawfeeq to impart Sacred Knowledge to the next generation of Muslim youth in America and make him sadaqa Jariya for his father. Ameen