Biography
It is mentioned in the famous compilation of Sunnan Al-Darimi:
“Whoever is met by death while he is seeking knowledge to revive Islam, then between him and the Prophets will be only one degree in Paradise.”
Abdus Shakur Brooks considers seeking knowledge his primary passion and God-given direction, and for this reason he studies, writes, and teaches as his primary path of focus and worship. Abdus Shakur Brooks is a Canadian from Toronto who converted to Islam in 1998. In 2000 he began his correspondence in traditional studies with a learned Hanafi scholar. During the period of 2000-2003 to Taiwan as a full-time ESL teacher. Here is where Abdus Shakur says he gained his initial ability to explain ideas and concepts presented in texts clearly because teaching ESL entails communicating the knowledge of a native language to foreign students in a way they can understand by making it as simple as possible without resorting to their native language (Chinese). In 2003 he traveled to the renowned school Mazharatul-Uloom in India where he spent a short period of time. Since 2004-2011 he carried out studies mainly in a variety of sciences, mainly Maliki fiqh and Arabic grammar, learning from teachers of West Africa, Yemen, Syria, Turkey and Egypt. Abdus Shakur Brooks continues to study, focusing on the study of the 6 standard books of Hadith and specialization in hadith sciences.
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