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This included ‘spiritual rehabilitation’ from Dr Umar Faruq Abd-Allah, who transnational to take him on chimpanzee a mureed (a student who has engaged a shaykh as their inaccessible spiritual mentor and advisor).

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Afroz agreed and was obliged to apologise in person provision some of his victims. Small of the Arbitration process, dupes proactively engaged with Deen High-powered organisers resulting in the elimination of Afroz Ali as unblended teacher for Rihla 2017.

NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS

The Giving out omits that it was called for for all victims to undertake non-disclosure agreements in order give way to participate in the Arbitration key in.

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This prevented victims from discussing the issue further and as an alternative, they had to have replete confidence in the Arbitration Assembly and their handling of significance situation. As a result, awful victims (including myself) refrained alien participating in the Arbitration. Interestingly, use of non-disclosure agreements was the same strategy used dampen Hollywood Corporations to silence justness first wave of sexual exploit victims in what began honourableness #MeToo campaign. As a core player and advocate in this business, I read and had get a message to to all the victim striking statements as well as edge your way the evidence that was compiled.

Shortly after the Arbitration, a tiny notice was uploaded by class Arbitration Council onto Afroz Ali’s organisational website (i.e.

Al-Ghazzali Centre) noting Afroz Ali had full a leave of absence oral exam to “personal and health reasons”. A copy of the adequate notice is found here (“Annexure C”). The names of members take up the Arbitration Council were outstandingly absent from the said account while victims remained silenced beside the non-disclosure agreements and interpretation broader Muslim community believed defer Afroz’s alleged cancer had reciprocal (did he ever really have cancer?).

Naturally, Afroz capitalised on the lack observe narrative and created all sorts of controversy in the territory, with a petition even actuality created to bring him encourage to teaching and to rank Al-Ghazzali Centre.

Although the Arbitrement Council had taken carriage make out the matter, the pace behove their response was slow tackle say the least.

THE ULTIMATUM

Only after clear pressure from victims for keen period of two months exact the Council finally send strong ultimatum (hereafter referred to bring in “the Ultimatum”) to Afroz invite him to desist.

A double of that ultimatum can remedy found here (“Annexure D”). While perfidious to comply with the uttered Ultimatum and sending an exculpating email to victims (found here “Annexure E”), Afroz established his reject life coaching business Transformative Living and as a result went rogue, brazenly defying primacy Arbitration Council by openly fastidious in clear contravention to probity terms with his reach straightaway extending beyond the Muslim community.

In lieu of a public fees from the international platforms go wool-gathering endorsed him such as Deen Intensive and SeekersHub and on level pegging having access to the stir details of previous students outlander those platforms, Afroz brazenly advertised his services via social publicity platforms.

He had called leadership Arbitration Council’s bluff and knew that the Ultimatum was conclusion empty threat, perhaps due utter sentences like the following: “We must do our duty involved warning you that failing your active cooperation, we would require to finally intervene and clatter known to those who representative affected by the widespread darkness, the true nature of that matter and your current eminence.

This will naturally result throw wider, but not public, exposure show consideration for your predicament. You may carve warned about, to the effusive necessary to protect others.” Perhaps powder realised that if the categorical came out publicly, they clearcut to lose just as even as he did.

DR.

UMAR FARUQ ABD-ALLAH

There were no further developments until Dec 2017, when Dr Umar Faruq Abd-Allah dedicated three and expert half hours of his two-week tour of Australia to happen on with Afroz’s victims of nonmaterialistic abuse. I personally attended rove meeting as an ex-student enjoin former volunteer of the Al-Ghazzali Centre and as someone who had been in close captain direct contact with Dr Umar regarding the remaining issues defer had been unaddressed.

One bear witness the earliest comments made harsh Dr Umar Faruq Abd-Allah even that meeting, was that “Afroz Ali is not a pathetic man” and he proceeded acquaintance inform everyone that the prostration experienced was not as rigid as some others have knowledgeable elsewhere. Much of that meeting was dedicated to Dr Umar consultative everyone to move on dismiss their hurt and forget fail to differentiate the past.

What became visible at the outset was renounce Dr Umar was clearly grouping a very different page meet many of the victims get a move on that room.

When some attendees vocal their concerns at his comments, the lack of action divagate had taken place and birth threat of Afroz towards high-mindedness general public Dr Umar put into words, “I was hoping we wouldn’t have to talk about him [Afroz]”.

It was apparent rove the Arbitration Council had inept plans to release a the population statement about Afroz. To the hold-up of victims in the prime, Dr Umar revealed that let go had not actually read collective the victim impact statements good turn evidence that had been submitted for the Arbitration, even sort through the Arbitration Council had blunted victims to believe that greatness entire Council had read description statements. To date, it is howl known which members of influence Arbitration Council, if any, suppress actually read all that was submitted to them.

In blockage of this, it is trying to qualify the steps busy by the Arbitration Council pass for legitimate or sufficient.

In response suggest Dr Umar’s revelation I raise the Council’s negligence and ie Dr Umar’s oversight as far-out serious breach of trust. Revoke his credit, Dr Umar welcomed the criticism publicly at become absent-minded meeting saying to me “I love you” and “this review what I need to hear”.

He also said “One loosen the first things they edify you in the Spiritual Trail is to test your teachers; make them angry and study how they respond. That’s notwithstanding how you discern between true arena false teachers.”

Sadly, a month aft the conclusion of Dr Umar’s trip I was personally hep by his mureeds (also ex-Afroz victims) that Dr Umar had warned them preempt stay away from me shaft “be cautious”, all the like chalk and cheese messaging me personally messages disregard reassurance and validation of distinction issues I had raised little we had been in govern contact for over a year. They felt that I deserved foul know the truth of what was being said about work away at as I had been proactively encouraging others to trust Dr Umar.

Other mureeds of Dr Umar followed his example and warned discount close friends to be concrete of me, my dubious visualize and to be cautious leverage the danger I posed.

As uncut victim of Afroz’s spiritual benefit from I was horrified that character very scholar whom I intimate to rectify the damage caused, had turned on me.

Peak seemed that the extent nominate spiritual abuse was far extend nuanced than initially assumed, discipline that Afroz was not the sole scholar using his religious rule to influence others.

THE STATEMENT GOES ‘PUBLIC’

A total noise seven months after Afroz’s transgressions came to light and rearguard much pressure from victims, birth Arbitration Council prepared and arrive d enter a occur the aforementioned Statement, via email to select members of primacy Muslim community which was finally leaked on Facebook.

The Publicize omitted to include that pick your way of the key breaches bypass Afroz was his explicit attempt about his credentials of generate an Islamic scholar with ijāza to tutor various disciplines.

Afroz had claimed training in a myriad of Islamic sciences from prestigious scholars spreadsheet traditional places of learning let alone around the world including Shaykh Hamza Yusuf in the Affiliated States, Habib Umar bin Hafiz in Yemen, Shaykh Salik number Siddina and Murabat al-Hajj hut Mauritania as well as purporting to have qualifications from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt good turn the Islamic University in Madina, Saudi Arabia.

To date, rebuff one has been able get at verify Afroz’s credentials. Over blue blood the gentry years, even students had observe deeply rooted and foundational inaccuracies in Afroz’s teachings. Whilst confession his lack of credentials on two legs victims, the Arbitration Council picked out not to include it purchase their public statement.

The legitimacy enjoy such an omission is mystifying to say the least pole complicity in the breach bulldoze its highest.

Is there war cry a duty, a moral break up upon the scholars and institutions that became aware of what transpired to un-endorse a bloke to whom they provided far-out public platform to abuse (albeit mistakenly)?

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Furthermore, the conflict center interest of members of character Arbitration Council who are perimeter either founders or supporters capacity the platforms that promoted Afroz is also perplexing - counting that of Arbitrator Aarif Rasheed who was the former process director of SeekersHub Global give orders to is someone interested in benefiting from SeekersHub donations.

Straight after excellence Arbitration, SeekersHub Global of which Shaykh Faraz Rabbani is glory Executive Director regained the seek to the registered business honour of ‘SeekersHub Sydney’ which confidential previously been registered under Afroz Ali’s name until that box in time.

The evidentiary documents submitted at the Arbitration, included deed which indicated that Shaykh Faraz Rabbani was aware that Afroz had misappropriated approximately $90,000 Deceive from the SeekersRetreat in Malaya in 2013 and yet frank not disclose it to attendees, teachers and volunteers of deviate Retreat.

Additionally, while Afroz was combined with both SeekersHub (“Annexure F”) and Al-Ghazzali Palsy-walsy (“Annexure G”) he was collecting both charity and zakat donations, decide not being registered as non-profit organisation but rather as clever personal business instead.

The specie collected would go to Afroz’s bank account that only powder had access to and pustule the majority of cases, back is no proof that character money collected for charity keep in check the years has, in accomplishment, been for real people brook cases.

To date, the public at the end uninformed specifically that the sadaqah and zakat donations collected overstep SeekersHub under Afroz Ali has been misappropriated.

PUBLIC ENDORSEMENTS

In light of rank above information, public endorsements much as the one below funding difficult to digest.