About Me

Since 2013, I am here at Al-Noor Academy with an official title of Dean of Students and Humanities. My main roles are overseeing the dual enrollment program, and serving as the college/guidance counselor for the high school students.

During COVID, when everything shutdown and whole the world turned to online. I also started to share my experiences online. I really enjoyed helping thousands of students in various parts of the worlds with diverse background. That became a stepping stone for this initiative: Five Before College.

I became Muslim at 15, alhamdulillah. But I don’t think I became a mu’min (inshAllah) until 5 years later when I was a junior in college.

When I first embraced Islam, there were a grand total of three Muslims in my network. Some tableeghi brothers used to visit our boarding school once a month and brought us to the masjid.

By senior year, however, cracks began to appear in everybody’s armor

Although we kept our doubts to ourselves, I believe each of us began to feel increasingly shackled by Islam’s many rules and restrictions. No alcohol. No girls. No inappropriate music. We saw our friends exploring these budding pleasures, and we felt we were missing out on our youth.

At Harvard, however, I encountered a real Muslim community. For the first time in my life, I could regularly attend Friday prayer. And I began to do just that. I befriended many Muslims, and Islam slowly began to creep back into my life.

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