IMAM
Abubakar Mohamed
The Islamic Center: Masjid Nur Ahl-Us Sunnah community is blessed to have as our Imam Abubakar Mohamed. Our Imam is truly the community’s Imam and comes to us with a great track record.
Imam Abubakar Mohamed joined Masjid Nur Ahl-Us Sunnah community as our Imam in 2015 from Buffalo NY, where he first began his Islamic educational career. Before serving Masjid Nur Ahl-Us Sunnah, he worked as a Muslim Chaplin at the Elgin Mental Health Center in Illinois from 2012-2015 and also as a guest speaker at various mosques throughout the United States.
Imam Abubakar began the study of Arabic and Islamic Sciences at the tender age of 11 years old under the well renowned institute Darululoom Al-Madinayah located in Buffalo, New York. At the age of seventeen, he traveled to the northwestern suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, where he spent the next 8 years studying under the tutelage of Sheikh Abdullah Saleem the founder of the Institute of Islamic Education.
After fourteen years of intensive study, Abubakar Mohamed received a degree in Islamic Studies from the Institute of Islamic Education and attained numerous ‘ijazas (independent certifications) in the subjects of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), the Islamic oral tradition (hadith), theology (aqida), principles of jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh), life of the Prophet (sirah), self-purification (tazkiyyah), logic (mantiq), Arabic grammar (nahu), morphology (sarf) and rhetoric (balagha).
Through his teaching, lecturing, mentor ship, and religious leadership, Imam Abubakar aims to foster love for Islam and appreciation of the vast richness of the Islamic tradition in new generations of American Muslims. Imam Abubakar is blessed to have a wonderful family in his wife, Umm Jannah and their baby son, Bilal.
What is Imam Abubakar’ s Role at Masjid Nur?
Imam Abubakar is our Imam. He is the spiritual leader of our institution, in charge of delivering religious fatwas to community members, being the guiding light behind all our programming, and representing us in the public sphere religiously.
How are we growing religiously under Imam Abubakar?
Imam abubakar imparts his Islamic teaching to the whole Masjid Nur Ahl-Us Sunnah through regular Khutbahs (Fridays at 1 pm), daily Halaqas after the Fajr (Dawn) and Isha(evening) prayers including educational classes for all, which can be found on our website.
How to connect with Imam Abubakar?
The quickest and best way to meet Imam Abubakar is during his office hours held weekly Mon-Thursday from 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm at the Masjid Nur Ahl-Us Sunnah.
Office Hours
Mon-Fri: 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
To contact Imam Abubakar Mohamed please feel free to email him directly at [email protected]. (Please allow at least 24 hours for a response)