Shaykh Arsalan Majid

Shaykh Arsalan is the Alim Course teacher at Hamd, a Subhah Instructor, and the Imam of Cypress Islamic Center. He is a Houstonian who has engaged himself in studying the religion from a young age. He memorized the Qur’an at Madrasah Islamiyyah in Houston, TX, at the age of 20 and pursued multiple ijazahs in Hafs thereafter.

He completed a Bachelor of Science in Psychology while minoring in Biology from the University of Houston, with plans to attend medical school — but decided to pursue further Islamic Studies at the Islamic University of Madinah. For six years, he engaged in intensive study both in a formal university setting and in private/public classes of local scholars, where he memorized and covered multiple classical texts across various sciences.

He graduated with a Bachelor's in Islamic Law and Legal Theory in 2018 and has since been teaching Arabic, Fiqh, and other Islamic sciences in Houston, continuing to serve as a scholar and educator for the local Muslim community.