Instructor Profile

• Hails From Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Expertise Tafseer
• Famous Quote "If humanity were to sit and contemplate on Surat Al-Asr, then that would suffice them for everything”
• Most Likely to Say “Jazakum Allah khair to all of youse!”
• Classroom Pet Peeve
• Known For A ‘Joisey’ boy with a Jersey accent, he is not afraid to put his money where his mouth is: he sponsors students and helps volunteers with the trash. If it wasn’t for his big beard, you wouldn’t be able to pick him from a crowd.

Shaykh Shpendim Nadzaku is an inspiration to all those who are starting their knowledge-seeking late. He did not grow up learning Arabic or the Qur’an; in fact he went to the Islamic University of Madinah with only a few short Surahs memorized.

Shaykh Shpendim has an intriguing name that roots back to a country reflecting his even more intriguing character. Born in 1973 to Albanian parents in the beautiful city of Ohrid Macedonia, his parents immigrated to America when he was just a year old. He was raised in New Jersey where he picked up the cool accent and soon took to the University of Madina where he graduated from the College of Shariah in 2001. He was contemporary to our other instructors from Madinah, Shaykhs Muhammad Alshareef and Yasir Qadhi.

His passion for the Arabic language made him one of my main sources of translating Arabic classical texts to English, especially poetry. He is currently the Imam/Religious Director with the Muslim Association of Greater Rockford and is currently an MBA student at Rockford College. With his spectacular smile, outstanding teaching skills and down-to-Earth character, Shaykh Shpendim brings a fresh style of learning to the AlMaghrib classrooms.