Career
Sheikh Khalid Hafiz, son of Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri, was born in Mubarakpur, India, and grew up in the twilight years of the British Raj. As a youth he witnessed the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. He attended the Ehyal ul Oloom in Mubarakpur and received further education at Darul Uloom Deoband, before furthering his studies in Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) at the Islamic University of Medina, Saudi Arabia, between 1962 and 1967. After graduation he was posted to Ghana to work as a teacher at the Muslim Mission there for 14 years.
In 1981 the Saudi charity Darul Ifta appointed Sheikh Hafiz to be Imam for the Wellington Muslim community in New Zealand, in response to a request by the “International Muslim Association of New Zealand”. He was soon after appointed senior spiritual advisor to the newly created national Muslim organisation in New Zealand, the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ).
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