Moulana Irshaad ibn Zafferullah ibn Ghiyasuddin ibn Riyazuddin Undre As-Shafi’i was born and raised in the north-west of England (Blackburn, Lancashire) into a religious family, having a maternal ancestry leading back to the Beloved of Allah, Muhammad b. Abdullah . Moulana’s initial Islamic education was at the hands of his grandfather, a very learned man, well versed in the Shafi’i Madh-hab and Islamic sciences. Fresh off completing a degree in Computing & Information Technology, he formally enrolled into the ‘Aalimiyyah Course in the year 2002, at Darul Uloom Blackburn,’Jamiatul ‘Ilm Wal Huda’, wherein he studied under the tutelage and care of the leading scholars of the north-west region, following the renowned Dars Nizamiyyah syllabus covering Nahwa (Arabic Grammar), Sarf (Morphology), Hadith, Usool, Qiraa’ah (Qur’aanic Recitation), Tajweed, Fiqh, and the Sihah Sittah (Six Major Collections of Ahaadith). After graduating as a qualified ‘Aalim in the year 2007, and mastering the Fiqh of the Hanafi Madh-hab, Maulana progressed to pursue his studies even further to specialise and complete his studies in Shafi’i Fiqh. Leaving everything behind and journeying into a historic city endowed with a legacy of scholastic tradition: Tarim, Hadramaut in the south of Yemen, Moulana entered the world famous institute of Dar Al Mustafa, Tarim, housing some of the greatest scholars in the Arabian Peninsula, including Habib Umar Bin Hafidh, Shaikh Muhammad Adam As-Sudani, Habib Khadhim As-Saqqaaf, Shaykh Saleh Al-Baihani, Shaykh Abdur-Rahman Al-Mehdaar, Shaikh Ali Abu Bakr Ba Fadhl, to mention a few (May Allah bless them all in their knowledge and action and make us all benefit from their Uloom – Ameen!). Years later, in 2010 Moulana returned to his home, filled with a powerful sense of zeal and passion he pledged to see the fruition of his new-founded mission: ‘Bayt Muhammad Academy’ which he runs, with his wife, (a graduate ‘Aalimah and a specialist in Shafi’i Fiqh), providing essential Islamic knowledge to children and adults, male and female alike, across the whole of the United Kingdom.