Listening to Shaykh Amin Kholwadia’s voice takes me back to high school, when I used to attend his Sunday tafsir classes. His classes were not just for the average person. Sometimes guests included other scholars like Dr. Umar Faruq Abdallah who would ask very deep questions and in that space became students as well. Shaykh Amin with his dry British humor is known as a hidden gem of Chicago. He studied all across India and Pakistan for just under a decade including at the original Darul Uloom in Deoband, India, where his father had also studied. Shaykh Amin’s journey includes growing up in the household of a scholar, leaving home at 16 to do hifz, studying tasawwuf, training as a mufti in Islamic law and eventually founding Darul Qasim — an institute that helps students gain Islamic knowledge that is authentic and relevant for Muslims in the West. Today Darul Qasim has over 40 students, 12 faculty, and an amazing new space— complete with an extensive library. Please listen to the visionary behind this beautiful institution. His story intersects with many great luminaries: his father Hadrat Mawlana Musa ibn Ibrahim Kholwadia, Mawlana Abu Sawood, Qadi Mujahidul Islam al-Qasimi, Shaykh Muhammad Miran, Qari Muhammad Tayyib al-Qasimi (grandson of Mawlana Muhammad Qasim al Nanotwi, the founder of Darul Uloom Deoband), Qari Riyad al-Rahman, Dr. ‘Abd al Razzaq Iskandar, Mawlana Idris Mirathi, Mufti Rida al-Haqq, Mufti Sa’id Ahmad al-Palanpuri, Mawlana Mi’raj al-Haqq, Mawlana Muhammad Na’im, Mawlana Anzar Shah al-Kashmiri, Mawlana Nasir Ahmad Khan al-Barni, Mawlana Muhammad Salim al-Qasimi and Dr. Allama Khalid Mahmood.