Sheikh Suhaib Hasan Abdul Ghaffar was born in India but brought up and educated in Pakistan. After completing Islamic and Arabic studies and English language studies he joined the newly-set-up Islamic University in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, for higher studies in the faculty of Sharia (Islamic Law). Here he studied under a galaxy of prominent scholars such as Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Baz, Muhammad Amin al-Shanqiti, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani and later his father Sheikh Abdul Ghaffar Hasan. After graduating in 1966 he began his career as a teacher and worker in Islamic Dawa in Nairobi, Kenya, on behalf of Darul Ifta. In 1976 he moved to London where he engaged in Islamic Dawa. Currently he is the chairman of Masjid and Madrasah al-Tawhid Trust and the Secretary of the Islamic Sharia Council of Great Britain.
In this lecture Sheikh Suhaib Hasan details the life of the great Prophet Abraham, Allah's Peace be upon him, and his great struggle to destroy idolatry and bring his people to the one true faith, Islam. |