Shaykh Ammar Jakda

Shaykh Ammar Jakda was born and raised in Cambridge, Ontario. Upon completing his highschool education, he went on to complete the memorization of the Qu'ran in Gujarat, India. His interest in Islamic studies took him first to Blackburn, UK, where he spent three years studying at the Islamic seminary Jamiatul Ilm Wal Huda. He would then go on to spend another three years at the prestigious Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow, India, where he graduated as an 'alim. He spent the next two years in Istanbul, Türkiye, specializing in the Islamic rational disciplines of theology and logic. The Shaykh recently served as an instructor in Hadith studies and Hanafi fiqh at Al Khalil Academy in Toronto, ON, and is currently an instructor at the Wijhah Initiative in Cambridge, ON.