The Muslim Youth League of Guyana, The Guyana United Sadr Islamic Anjuman and the Anna Catherina Islamic Complex (ACIC) in association with the Al Faisilliyah Fraternity (Guyana), will be hosting a Lecture featuring Guyanese born (Canadian based) Muslim Scholar Shaykh Faisal Hamid Abdur Razak at the Anna Catherina Islamic Complex on Wednesday from 18.30 hours or after Maghrib Prayers.
Shaykh Faisal, who lives in Brampton, Canada, studied in Saudi Arabia, first at Umm al-Qurra University in Makkah, then at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. He also studied at York University, Toronto, Canada. While  in Saudi Arabia, in addition to University studies, he studied under many Scholars and Shaykhs, including Shaykh Hasan Ayub, Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali, Shaykh Muhammad Qutb, Shaykh Abdur-Rahman Barood, Shaykh Muhammad al-Wasfi, Shaykh Farooq al-Batal, Shaykh Muhammad Ali al-Sabuni, Shaykh Abdullah Nasih `Alwan, Shaykh Maw’il Ezziddin al-Samura’ee.
After completing his studies in Saudi Arabia, he returned to Canada where he became actively involved in Islamic Da`wah and education. He served as Imam / Khatib of several Masjids and Islamic Centres including the Islamic Society of Peel, the Islamic Centre of Brampton, and the Toronto And Region Islamic Centre (TARIC).
Shaykh Faisal served on the Government of Canada Interfaith Committee, the Province of Ontario Multifaith Council, and the City of Brampton Multifaith Committee .

He is also the President of the Islamic Forum of Canada, Vice-President of the Islamic Council of Imams of Canada, and a member of the al-Shura Muslim Consultative Council. He has lectured on a wide range of Islamic topics to gatherings in many countries including Canada , U.S.A. , England , Germany , Norway , Pakistan , India , Saudi Arabia , Jordan , Palestine , Turkey , Syria , Guyana , Barbados , and Trinidad . He is widely recognized throughout the world as a foremost Sunni scholar. He has to his credit more than one hundred titles recorded on Audio and DVD’s and is the author of many books on Islam.
This much respected scholar will be accompanied by Qari Sadaqat Ali from Pakistan. Qari Al (reciter of the Quran) is one of the leaders in his field around the world and has won several international competitions. He is the producer of the famous Ar Rahman DVD and was a leading student of the world’s best quranic reciter, the Late Shaikh Abdus Basit Abdus Samad.