Shaykh Hashim Ahmad was a professional musician from Hollywood, Los Angeles California, where he spent his youth during the 1960's in pursuit of his musical career, coupled with a passion for a natural healthy lifestyle inspired from early childhood by his mother, an accomplished nutritionist & certified organic gardener. He left America in 1970 in pursuit of the original true path of spiritual development and way to the Creator. After extensive travel and search he accepted Islam in Ethiopia 1971, then on to Yemen and eventually Makkah Al Mukarramah.

He then travelled to Yemen followed by Makkah graduating from Umm al-Qura University in the Sciences of Qur’an and Hadith. In addition to obtaining ijazahs from many traditional scholars Shaykh Hashim has an MA in Islamic Culture.

He taught various Islamic sciences during the 80s and 90s at Jami‘ah al-‘Ulum al-Islamiyyah in Karachi and other leading Islamic institutions. From 1992 onward he taught at Madrasah ʿĀ’ishah Ṣiddiqah, a premier institute for women’s education in Karachi, and later at one of its branches, Madrasah Maryam.

In 1997 he formed a company known as Al Khair Creative Quality Ware, providing “Beneficial products aligned with a healthy, meaningful lifestyle”. Along with his associates they worked on developing a business based on Islamic and professional excellence that eventually evolved into an entire Islamic business system known as “The Ubudiyyah Business Model”. UBM Trust was formed, engaging in R&D, facilitation and promotion of the model. Hashim now heads the UBM Trust apart from lecturing and presenting at diverse venues on Islamic related topics, and offering consultancy to individuals and institutions.

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