Abu Taubah was born and raised in New York and has been travelling widely around the world from a young age and this led him to a journey of learning about Islam. He has met and studied with many scholars, activists and duaat. He spent a number of years studying in rural Mauritania under a number of scholars in the traditional way. He has mastered the arabic language and its sciences, memorised the Quran with Ijazah and has also studied hadeeth, aqeedah, usul al fiqh and fiqh. He is the founder the Foundation of Islamic Knowledge & Seminary (The FIKS) where he provides online learning of Arabic and Islamic studies to a number of students from around the world. "Classic Tafsir" is a series dedicated to understanding the Qur'an. Ustadh Abu Taubah's unique poetic style of teaching and literary eloquence is remnant of our scholars from the past, and is an effective way of understanding the Words of Allah.