Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi | |
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.jpg) Yasir at Masjid-e-Mamoor inBengaluru | |
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| Born | (1982-03-04)4 March 1982 (age 43) Deoband, India |
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| Notable work(s) | Islam and Globalization |
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| Relatives | Usmani family of Deoband (maternal),Sharif Hasan Deobandi (great paternal uncle) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Founder of | Burhan Academy |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
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| Movement | Deobandi |
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| Years active | 2010–present |
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| Subscribers | 381 thousand |
| Views | 50 million |
| Last updated: 27 October 2025 | |
| Website | yasirnadeemalwajidi |
Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi (born 4 March 1982) is an Indian-born,Chicago-based Muslim scholar,mufti,author, public speaker, and debator.[1] He is the founder and president ofBurhan Academy, an Islamic school located at the formerElgin Academy site inElgin, Illinois. He is amufti and teachesfiqh,hadith, andaqidah at the Islamic Institute of Education in Chicago. He is the founder of Darul Uloom Online and the author of books includingHistorical Study on Islamic Renewal andIslam and Globalization.
Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi was born on 4 March 1982 inDeoband, India.[2][3] His father,Nadeem al-Wajidi, was a well-known Islamic scholar and writer. His grandfather Wajid HussainDeobandi was ahadith professor at theJamia Islamia Talimuddin.[2] Yasir is maternally related to theUsmani family of Deoband. His maternal grandfather, Abdullah Saleem had established Mahd Taleemul Islām, the firstmadrasa inChicago.[4]
Yasir memorized theQuran with his parents and entered theDarul Uloom Deoband for further education.[2] He graduated in 2001 and then specialized inArabic literature andIslamic jurisprudence.[5] His teachers includeNaseer Ahmad Khan,Nematullah Azami, andSaeed Ahmad Palanpuri.[4] In 2004, Yasir moved to theUnited States of America and earned anM.A. in Arabic literature from theAmerican Open University.[6] He did hisdoctoral studies inhadith at theInternational Islamic University Malaysia in 2012 under the supervision of Abul Lais Khairabadi.[5][4]
Yasir began teaching at the Mahd Taleemul Islām in 2004 and established Darul Uloom Online in 2009. Darul Uloom Online is thought to be first initiative towards the teaching ofdars-e-nizami curriculum online.[2] He is the deputy chairman ofIslamic Literature Review, an international journal on Islamic revival.[2] He also serves as the Vice President of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Chicago.[7] He is the founder and president atBurhan Academy, an Islamic school located at the formerElgin Academy site in Elgin, Illinois.[8][9][10][11][12]
In February 2017, Nadeem challenged thePakistani-Canadian authorTarek Fateh, who hostsFatah Ka Fatwa, that, "If Fateh really liked to debateIslam then he should debate with Yasir anywhere in theworld, owing to conditions including the presence of independent judges and at a public place not in a TV studio".[6] Yasir had also expressed that, "questions and allegations will be of Fateh whilst the responses would be of Yasir".[6] Fateh, however did not accept Yasir's offer of an academic debate.[6] Following the inception of Fateh'sFatah Ka Fatwa, Yasir startedSurgical Strike, atalk show to counter allegations made against Islam.[13] The talk show released 72 episodes including the major ones withArif Mohammad Khan,Mahmood Madani,Orya Maqbool Jan,Ram Puniyani andRavi Shankar, and discontinued after two successful years.[4]
In May 2017, Yasir said about Muslim girls who elope with Hindu boys and leave Islam, that, "No one is responsible for such cases of apostasies more than the religious scholars who establish institutions for those who come to them to learn Islam but they ignore rest of the 97% young boys and girls who do not go to anymadrasas".[14] In January 2019, Yasir hit a controversy saying that theJana Gana Mana had no concepts ofpolytheism associated, as is generally believed by many Muslims. He expressed thatRabindranath Tagore had written the poem in the praise of God.[15] He said that if Tagore was a polytheist, it was understandable that the poem is influenced by polytheism, but there is no such proof which brands Tagore as a polytheist.[16] He citedJohn B. Watson stating that Tagore's religion was God and love with the nature.[16] In March 2021, Yasir denounced presence of casteism in Indian Muslims and said that it is a social evil.[17]
In February 2023, Yasir hit another controversy after he called the marriage ofSwara Bhasker andFahad Ahmad "legal but not accepted in Islam".[18][19] This created a Twitter war between him andRJ Sayema, and made critics call his take misogynistic.[20][21]
In a discussion on casteism, Yasir clarified that caste-based discrimination has no basis in Islam and is purely a social issue. He emphasized that Islam promotes equality, citing the Qur'an (Surah Al-Hujurat 49:13) and Muhammad's last sermon, both of which stress that all humans are equal and that piety is the only measure of superiority in the eyes of Allah.[22]
In June 2023, in response to the release of the Hindi language movie72 Hoorain, Yasir released a video on Twitter addressing misconceptions about Muslims and terrorism. He challenged the notion thatglobal terrorism is driven by the promise of "72Hoorain", emphasizing that such incidents constitute only a small fraction of global violence. He argued that while extremist groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda are universally condemned by Muslims as terrorists, other violent mobs, especially those targeting Muslims, are often not labeled as terrorists.[23]
Yasir compiledQāmus al-Asri, a trilingual dictionary which contains seventy-five thousand words ofArabic, English andUrdu language.[2][24] His other works include:
یہ فلم 7 جولائی کو ریلیز ہو رہی ہے اور سوشل میڈیا پر جاری کردہ اس کے ٹیزر کے مطابق فلم میں یہ دکھانے کی کوشش کی گئی کہ کس طرح دہشت گرد تنظیموں کے رہنما معصوم نوجوانوں کو 'جنت میں حُوروں کا لالچ' دے کر غیرمسلموں کے قتل پر آمادہ کرتے ہیں۔[The film is due for release on 7 July, and according to its teaser released on social media, the film attempts to show how leaders of terrorist organisations entice innocent youths to kill non-Muslims by "luring them tohouris in paradise"]
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