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13 Facts About Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi

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Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi was born on 1967 and is a Muslim scholar, principal of the Hijaz College, founder of Hijaz Community, founder of Hijaz Expo, national convener for the campaign for Global Civility, National Convenor of the Muslim Action Committee, President General of the International Muslims Organisation, Grand Blessed Guide of the Naqshbandi Qadri Hijazi Sufi Order, Chairman of Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, international lecturer in Islam, and a barrister at law.

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Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi studied under his father and many other Shayukh of the time.

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Murshid Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi is the leader of the Naqshbandi Qadri Hijazi Spiritual Sufi Order, a branch of Sufism with followers in over 34 countries.

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Murshid Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi authored a Declaration of Global Civility, which called upon world leaders to support the notion that mutual respect, rather than insults or vilification, should be the foundation of a civil society.

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Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi is the principal and founding trustee of Hijaz College in Nuneaton, England, where he resides on campus.

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Shaykh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi is a signatory to Charter 3:103 based on the verse of the Qur'an which urges Muslims to remain united despite sectarian differences.

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Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi convened the Muslim Action Committee, an umbrella organisation of Sunni and Shia Islamic scholars and Islamic political groups such as the Islamic Human Rights Commission and Hizb ut-Tahrir to organise a demonstration against the repeated publications of the Danish cartoons of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.

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Murshid Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi is the founder of Hijaz Community, which is an international network of over 10,000 professionals, focused on contributing to community enrichment through a various initiatives.

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Murshid Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi is a barrister under English and Welsh law, and as such is a member of the Lincoln's Inn since 1991 and practiced law for over a decade.

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Murshid Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi is the President General of the International Muslim Organisation, founded in 1980 and headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, aims to address the religious, social, and cultural needs of the global Muslim community.

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Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi was among the guests on the Law in Action programme aired on 28 November 2006 which discussed the issue of Sharia courts in the UK, which was covered by many newspapers and other media.

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Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi was involved in a debate in London in February 2008 entitled KINGDOM OF GOD: the Archbishop, the Sharia and the Law of the Land in response to a speech by Archbishop Rowan Williams, in which Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi defended and advocated the use of Islamic Family Law in the UK and showed hope that in the future a more educated and spiritual Muslim community in Britain would be able to live under all aspects of Sharia Law.

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Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi launched the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal Archived 12 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine to deal with the issue of forced marriages within the Muslim community.