Sheikh Zakaria Badat

Molana Zakaria Badat is a Imam who was born in the state of Gujarat, India. He moved to England at the age of two where he lived until recently. Molana Zakaria studied Islamic Theology at the Institute of Islamic Education Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, UK. He has memorized the entire Qur’an and is considered Hafez of the Qur'an. He holds a Masters Degree from the University of Portsmouth UK in Islamic Studies and Politics. He was the Imam of Masjid-al-Falah in Leicester for 10 years. Moalana Zakaria was also a visiting Imam in the UK prisons, and was part of the multi faith forum in the UK. He has been a radio presenter on Radio Ramadhan Special in the UK for six years with his friend Molana Ibrahim Mogra who regularly comes on BBC Radio 4 and Newsnight.

He has lectured at the University of Leicester UK, De Montfort University UK, Florida International University in Miami, and recently in July 2006 at a peace conference organized by Shree Morari Bapu of India in Leicester UK.

Imam M Zakaria is fluent in five languages Arabic, English, Gujarati, Urdu and Hindi. He has traveled around the World promoting peace Albania, Saudi Arabia, India, Russia, Lithuania, USA, Canada, Belarus, and Europe.

He is the resident Imam at Masjid An-Noor in Kendall and the The Islamic School of Miami since March 2005.

He is currently living in America - Miami and is the imam.

He is the resident Imam at Masjid An-Noor in Kendall and the The Islamic School of Miami since March 2005.

He is currently living in America - Miami with his wife and four children and is currently an imam there. Molana Zakaria is a strong- minded character who endorses Islam at in its purest form. He is a follower of the Sunni Hanafi school of thought. He is against extremity in any form or manner.

Sheikh Zakaria has performed a number of Hajj pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia over the years and currently takes groups of Hajjis [people going for hajj] from Florida, New Guinea and Trinidad and Tobago.

Sheikh Zakaria is from a family of great scholars and sheikhs which include his paternal uncle, the founder of Majlis-e Mahmodiya, Mufti Musa Badat of Batley West Yorkshire in England, UK.

Sheikh Zakaria's father is a very well known co-ordinator for the Tablighi Jamaat group in the UK.

External links

*http://www.peaceyourbirthright.org/Peace%20Webpage%20English/imam_zakaria.htm
*http://al-amana.net/home/2007/09/16/south-florida-imams-shape-islamic-community