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Maulana Bilal Ali
Sheikh Bilal Ali Ansari was born, raised, and educated in Chicago, IL. After completing his high school education in 1998, he studied two years of computer engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL. Later, his desire for Islamic knowledge drove him to the Indian subcontinent, where he decided to pursue a higher education in Islamic studies.
Sheikh Bilal started his Islamic studies at Jamiat al-Husanain in Faisalabad, Pakistan where he benefited greatly from the company and teachings of its principal and founder, the famous orator and daee of Islam, Maulana Tariq Jameel. There, he spent nearly four years in the company and service of his beloved and talented teacher, Sheikh Ramzi al-Habib al-Tunisi al-Maliki, and it was there that he studied most of the major sciences of Islam, including Arabic grammar, literature, balaghat, logic, aqidah, fiqh, usul al-fiqh, iftaa, inheritance laws, tafseer, uloom al-Quran, uloom al-hadith, and some of the principal books of hadith
Later, he traveled to Karachi and enrolled at the famous Jamia Darul Uloom Karachi where he completed his hadith studies under prominent scholars of fiqh and hadith, such as Mufti Muhammad Taqi Uthmani, Mufti Muhammad Rafee Uthmani, Mufti Mahmud Ashraf Uthmani, Mufti Abdur Rauf Sikharwi, Maulana Abdullah Burmi, Maulana Iftikhar Ahmed Azami, among others
After graduation from the last year of hadith studies (dawrat al-hadith), Sheikh Bilal enrolled in a specialization course in hadith and studied the intricacies of the science under Allamah Dr. Abdul Haleem Numani (Chishti), the brother of the famous hadith researcher Allamah Abdur Rasheed Numani (rahmatullahi alaihi). He is currently working on completing his thesis in hadith studies.
Aside from his hadith ijazahs from Mufti Muhammad Taqi Uthmani and other ulama of Darul Uloom Karachi, Sheikh Bilal Ali also has ijazahs in hadith from some of the most senior ulama of Pakistan, namely Maulana Saleemullah Khan, Maulana Sarfaraz Khan Safdar, Maulana Abdul Haleem Numani, and Maulana Khan Muhammad. >BR?

Currently, Maulana Bilal Ali Ansari is teaching the darse nizami shariah course full-time at the Mahad Taleem al-Islam (Institute of Islamic Education, Elgin IL). He also teaches part-time at the College Preparatory School of America, a Muslim high school located in Lombard, IL. Alongside his involvement in a number of Islamic community activities, he also serves as director and part-time imam of al-Mustafa Masjid in Westmont, IL.

Mufti Azeemuddin Ahmed
Mufti Azeemuddin was born and raised in the Chicagoland area. After completing hifz, he went on to complete a rigorous 8-year Alim and 'Ifta course at Darul Uloom Zakaria in Johannesburg, South Africa based on the traditioonal Darse-Nizami cirriculum of Islamic education, under some of the world's greatest scholars such as Mufti Raza-ul-Haq. Following his graduation with top honors, Mufti Azeemuddin earned authorizations in the Islamic sciences, which included but was not limited to, Arabic language, Exegesis (Tafseer), Hadeeth, and Jurisprudence (Fiqh). He is currently Imam at AIA Masjid in Frankfort, IL and also does private classes. He is currently pursuing a B.A. Honours Degree in Islamic Studies from Univeristy of Johannesburg.