Shaykh Riad Saloojee is a lifelong student of
knowledge. After a career in law, politics and media, he traveled to Cape Town, South Africa and studied the Islamic sciences at Dar al-‘Ulum al-‘Arabiyya al-Islamiyya (DUAI) under the auspices of the late Shaykh Taha Karan (may Allah envelope him in His Lovingmercy).

After graduation, he taught a variety of subjects at the renown seminary, including Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh), the higher objectives of the law (maqasid alshari‘ a), law (fiqh), Prophetic traditions (hadith), and theology (‘aqida).

His teachers also include the spiritual giants of our time – Shaykh Muhammad Emin Er (may Allah envelope him in His Loving-mercy) and Shaykh Mokhtar Maghraoui.

Under Shaykh Mokhtar, he has been trained in the practice of spirituality (tazkiya an-nafs) and is currently teaching in Al-Madina’s Suhba Online program and the Suhba Seminary.