{"id":1316,"date":"2021-01-25T03:31:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T03:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/?page_id=1316"},"modified":"2025-05-15T21:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:46:56","slug":"shaykh-arsalan-haque","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/shaykh-arsalan-haque\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaykh Arsalan Haque"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1316\" class=\"elementor elementor-1316\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-423b437 header-inner-title elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"423b437\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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He graduated from Texas A&amp;M University in 2001 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Biochemistry. After working for a few years in Houston, he traveled to Damascus, where he studied the Arabic language and other Islamic sciences for two years.<br \/><br \/><br \/>In 2007, he moved to Cairo to further his pursuit of the sacred sciences, and graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree from the College of Sharia at al-Azhar University. During his stay in the Middle East, he was blessed to study with scholars from all over the world, including Syria, Egypt, Yemen, and the Indian subcontinent, receiving teaching licenses [ijazat] from them in Quranic Recitation, Hadith, Shafii Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, and Tasawwuf.<br \/><br \/><br \/>After returning to the United States in 2013, he served as the Assistant Imam of the Muslim Community of Troy for two years, and the Imam of the Islamic Association of Allen for one year. He then served as the Resident Scholar of the Islamic Association of Collin County and the Director of Taqwa Seminary for 8 years before accepting his current position as the Imam of IACC in October, 2024. He is married with three sons and one daughter.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riwaq &#038; Marifa Instructor Imam Arsalan Haque Imam Arsalan Haque was born in Pakistan and raised in College Station, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&amp;M University in 2001 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Biochemistry. After working for a few years in Houston, he traveled to Damascus, where he studied the Arabic language and other Islamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13547,"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1316\/revisions\/13547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planomasjid.org\/taqwa-seminary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}