Muhammad Musa Nasr was born in the campground of Balaat in Palestine in 1954 and began his primary studies in the city of Jericho, Palestine. He finished his secondary studies in Ghawr, Jordan and his high school studies in Zarqaa (Jordan). The Shaikh attended college in the Noble Qur'aan faculty of the Islaamic University of Madeenah and received his Bachelor's Degree in the "Sciences of Qur'aan and Its Recitations" in 1981. Then he traveled to Pakistan in 1984 and enrolled in the University of Punjab, where he received his Masters Degree in "Islamic Sciences and Arabic Language" with a grade of "very good" (jayyid jiddan).

He also received the Salafi Universities wifaaq (approval and consent) from the Islamic University of Lahore with a grade of "excellent" (mumtaaz). This certificate is the equivalent to a Masters Degree. From 1987 to 1991, he worked for the Saudi Department of Educational Research, Da'wah and Guidance at the center "Markaz Da'wah wal-Irshaad" in Bahrain, under the sponsorship of the Jordanian Trust (waqf) Ministry. Previously, he had worked as a lecturer at the College for Islamic Sciences, which is under the Jordanian Trust (waqf) Ministry from 1982 to 1987. He also worked at checking and inspecting the printing of mus-hafs (copies of the Qur'an) and as an arbitrator for the Qur'anic competitions that were arranged by the Jordanian Trust (waqf) Ministry. He also served as a member in the Committee of Testing and Examining Recitations of Imams in Zarqaa (Jordan). He founded al-Asaalah Magazine along with a group of scholars and worked as Chief Editor for it until the 20th issue. So far, thirty issues of this magazine have been printed. In 1997, he obtained his Doctorate's Degree (i.e. PhD) in the "Recitations and Interpretation of the Qur'aan" with a grade of "excellent" (mumtaaz) from the Qur'aanic University of Umm-Darmaan in Sudan. The subject of his dissertation was the book "The Preferred Opinions of Imaam Abee 'Ubayd Al-Qaasim Ibn Salaam and his methodology in Reciting the Qur'aan" ("Ikhtiyaaraat Al-Imaam Abee 'Ubayd Al-Qaasim Ibn Salaam wa manhajuhu fil-Qiraa'ah").

He obtained various ijaazahs (religious approbations) on Recitation and Hadeeth from a group of scholars, including 'Ataa-ullaah Haneef, Badi'-ud-Din As-Sindhi, the Muhaddith of Sindh, and others. And he held a close companionship with the Savant, the Muhaddith, Muhammad Nasir ad-Din al-Albani, from the early seventies (1970's) until his death (in 1999). This is such that he would always attend his educational gatherings and he would constantly frequent his home time and again to take from his knowledge.

Currently, he works as a lecturer at the University of Applicable Sciences in the Shari'ah Division, which is under the College of Disciplines. He has been working here since 1993. He has written dozens of books, some of which are printed and some not. He has also written numerous articles that appeared in newspapers and magazines.

The shaykh participated in Islamic conferences and conventions in North America, Canada and United Kingdom while also participating in lectures and seminars. He has also traveled to Guyana, Trinidad, France, Bahrain and numerous other places in order to spread the Salafi Da'wah. He has taught in the first two Islamic Seminars of the Salafi Society of North America in NY, USA, and a similar seminar in London, England. He has also been attending the annual QSS conventions for the past several years, and thus he has a large number of tapes available in the English language (translated). He is also a member of the Society of Herbal Medicines in Jordan and a member of the Board of Directors in the New York based "Salafi Society of North America." For the past twenty years, he has been providing treatment and cures for spiritual sicknesses, such as possession, sorcery, the evil eye, and epilepsy. He has a great concern for the subject of prophetic medicine, and he has many lectures on that with regard to herbal medicines. Allah has benefited and cured many people through him, and this is only by Allah's Grace.

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