Riyadh-based Quran teacher with three ijaazas speaks on the importance of learning the divine book. – conducted and translated by Asma Yasin

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself.

My name is Adlia Hasan Mohammad Ahmad El-Fakeeh. My parents are Nubians from Northern Sudan but they moved to Cairo, Egypt before I was born. I lived there until I got married and had my first child, Iman. Then we came here to Saudi Arabia.

Many people are not familiar with the term “Ijaza”. Can you please explain for them what an Ijaza is?

 An Ijaza is a certificate from a sheikh authorizing the recipient to teach Quran and listing the sanad (chain) of teachers going back to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم who himself learned it from the angel Jibreel عليه السلام, who was sent down from the heavens to reveal what Allah سبحانه و تعالى has taught him .