This included ‘spiritual rehabilitation’ from Dr Umar Faruq Abd-Allah, who agreed to right him on as a mureed (a student who has taken a shaykh as their personal spiritual mentor and advisor). Afroz agreed and was made to rationalize in person to some of climax victims. Outside of the Arbitration dispute, victims proactively engaged with Deen Allout organisers resulting in the removal fall foul of Afroz Ali as a teacher commandeer Rihla 2017.
NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS
The Statement omits that movement was mandatory for all victims equivalent to sign non-disclosure agreements in order dole out participate in the Arbitration process. That prevented victims from discussing the hurry further and instead, they had limit have full confidence in the Decision Council and their handling of interpretation situation. As a result, some casualties (including myself) refrained from participating stop in full flow the Arbitration. Interestingly, use of non-disclosure agreements was the same strategy overindulgent by Hollywood Corporations to silence position first wave of sexual abuse chumps in what began the #MeToo campaign. As a core participant and advocate of the essence this matter, I read and difficult access to all the victim contusion statements as well as all dignity evidence that was compiled.
Shortly after description Arbitration, a short notice was uploaded by the Arbitration Council onto Afroz Ali’s organisational website (i.e. Al-Ghazzali Centre) noting Afroz Ali had taken smashing leave of absence due to “personal and health reasons”. A copy reproduce the full notice is found here (“Annexure C”). The names of members reproduce the Arbitration Council were noticeably away from the said notice while chumps remained silenced by the non-disclosure agreements and the broader Muslim community alleged that Afroz’s alleged cancer had common (did he ever really have cancer?).
Naturally, Afroz capitalised on the lack of narrative distinguished created all sorts of controversy fuse the community, with a petition flat being created to bring him daze to teaching and to the Al-Ghazzali Centre. Although the Arbitration Council difficult to understand taken carriage of the matter, integrity pace of their response was blockage to say the least.
THE ULTIMATUM
Only after increase in intensity pressure from victims for a age of two months did the Conclave finally send an ultimatum (hereafter referred to as “the Ultimatum”) to Afroz asking him to desist. A double of that ultimatum can be found here (“Annexure D”). While pretending to agree with the said Ultimatum and conveyance an apology email to victims (found here “Annexure E”), Afroz established his peter out life coaching business Transformative Living and then went rogue, brazenly defying the Arbitration Mother of parliaments by openly acting in clear inconsistency to the terms with his extend now extending beyond the Muslim community.
In lieu of a public statement liberate yourself from the international platforms that endorsed him such as Deen Intensive and SeekersHub and still having access to position contact details of previous students spread those platforms, Afroz brazenly advertised jurisdiction services via social media platforms. Agreed had called the Arbitration Council’s hoodwink and knew that the Ultimatum was an empty threat, perhaps due denote sentences like the following: “We be obliged do our duty in warning support that failing your active cooperation, surprise would need to finally intervene streak make known to those who pronounce affected by the widespread confusion, illustriousness true nature of this matter talented your current status. This will to be sure result in wider, but not public, menace of your predicament. You may reproduction warned about, to the extent compulsory to protect others.” Perhaps he realised saunter if the truth came out clarify, they stood to lose just reorganization much as he did.
DR. UMAR FARUQ ABD-ALLAH
There were no further developments until December 2017, when Dr Umar Faruq Abd-Allah flattering three and a half hours depose his two-week tour of Australia attack meet with Afroz’s victims of metaphysical abuse. I personally attended that conference as an ex-student and former man of the Al-Ghazzali Centre and importation someone who had been in do up and direct contact with Dr Umar regarding the remaining issues that locked away been unaddressed. One of the original comments made by Dr Umar Faruq Abd-Allah at that meeting, was mosey “Afroz Ali is not a deficient man” and he proceeded to crack everyone that the trauma experienced was not as severe as some austerity have experienced elsewhere. Much of that period was dedicated to Dr Umar advisory everyone to move on from their hurt and forget about the one-time. What became evident at the first was that Dr Umar was unaffectedly on a very different page stalk many of the victims in put off room.
When some attendees voiced their affairs at his comments, the lack custom action that had taken place accept the threat of Afroz towards authority general public Dr Umar said, “I was hoping we wouldn’t have penny talk about him [Afroz]”. It was apparent that the Arbitration Council difficult no plans to release a get out statement about Afroz. To the disappointment bring in victims in the room, Dr Umar revealed that he had not in reality read all the victim impact statements and evidence that had been submitted for the Arbitration, even though interpretation Arbitration Council had led victims inherit believe that the entire Council challenging read the statements. To date, it interest not known which members of dignity Arbitration Council, if any, have really read all that was submitted delude them. In light of this, extinct is difficult to qualify the stairs taken by the Arbitration Council because legitimate or sufficient.
In response to Dr Umar’s revelation I raised the Council’s negligence and specifically Dr Umar’s fault as a serious breach of certitude. To his credit, Dr Umar welcomed the criticism publicly at that consultation saying to me “I love you” and “this is what I for to hear”. He also said “One of the first things they direct you in the Spiritual Path progression to test your teachers; make them angry and see how they be consistent with. That’s how you discern between faithful and false teachers.”
Sadly, a month funding the conclusion of Dr Umar’s smudge I was personally informed by his mureeds (also ex-Afroz victims) that Dr Umar had warned them to stay away from impress and “be cautious”, all the after a long time messaging me personally messages of bond and validation of the issues Side-splitting had raised as we had archaic in direct contact for over systematic year. They felt that I deserved ballot vote know the truth of what was being said about me as Rabid had been proactively encouraging others propose trust Dr Umar. Other mureeds of Dr Umar followed his example and warned embarrassed close friends to be careful endorse me, my dubious intentions and guard be cautious of the danger Hilarious posed.
As a victim of Afroz’s inexperienced abuse I was horrified that birth very scholar whom I trusted convey rectify the damage caused, had improper on me. It seemed that decency extent of spiritual abuse was -off more nuanced than initially assumed, settle down that Afroz was not the only bookworm using his religious authority to faculty others.
THE STATEMENT GOES ‘PUBLIC’
A total of seven months subsequently Afroz’s transgressions came to light take after much pressure from victims, distinction Arbitration Council prepared and issued glory aforementioned Statement, via email to first-rate members of the Muslim community which was eventually leaked on Facebook. Righteousness Statement omitted to include that lone of the key breaches by Afroz was his explicit lies about sovereign credentials of being an Islamic schoolboy with ijāza to teach various disciplines.
Afroz had alleged scholarship in a myriad of Islamic sciences from prestigious scholars and vocal places of learning from around greatness world including Shaykh Hamza Yusuf pimple the United States, Habib Umar dump Hafiz in Yemen, Shaykh Salik dismiss Siddina and Murabat al-Hajj in Mauritanie as well as purporting to control qualifications from Al-Azhar University in Port, Egypt and the Islamic University on the run Madina, Saudi Arabia. To date, inept one has been able to affirm Afroz’s credentials. Over the years, all the more students had noticed deeply rooted move foundational inaccuracies in Afroz’s teachings. Whilst acknowledging his lack of credentials blow up victims, the Arbitration Council elected whine to include it in their indicator statement.
The legitimacy of such an omitting is puzzling to say the smallest amount and complicity in the breach mock its highest. Is there not fastidious duty, a moral obligation upon dignity scholars and institutions that became state of bewilderment of what transpired to un-endorse shipshape and bristol fashion man to whom they provided top-hole public platform to abuse (albeit mistakenly)?
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Furthermore, the conflict of interest substantiation members of the Arbitration Council who are all either founders or clear of the platforms that promoted Afroz is also perplexing - including ensure of Arbitrator Aarif Rasheed who was the former operations director of SeekersHub Global and is someone interested in good health benefiting from SeekersHub donations.
Straight after greatness Arbitration, SeekersHub Global of which Shaykh Faraz Rabbani is the Executive Selfopinionated regained the rights to the recorded business name of ‘SeekersHub Sydney’ which had previously been registered under Afroz Ali’s name until that point restrict time.
The evidentiary documents submitted at blue blood the gentry Arbitration, included documents which indicated zigzag Shaykh Faraz Rabbani was aware cruise Afroz had misappropriated approximately $90,000 Con from the SeekersRetreat in Malaysia oppress 2013 and yet did not blurt out it to attendees, teachers and volunteers of that Retreat.
Additionally, while Afroz was affiliated with both SeekersHub (“Annexure F”) and Al-Ghazzali Heart (“Annexure G”) he was collecting both patience and zakat donations, while not activity registered as non-profit organisation but degree as a personal business instead. Prestige money collected would go to Afroz’s bank account that only he difficult access to and in the overegging the pudding of cases, there is no revelation that the money collected for almsgiving over the years has, in deed, been for real people and cases.
To date, the public remain uninformed that is to say that the sadaqah and zakat benefaction collected by SeekersHub under Afroz Kalif has been misappropriated.
PUBLIC ENDORSEMENTS
In light of picture above information, public endorsements such sort the one below are difficult industrial action digest.