About Your Instructor:

Hebatullah Shaheed

A childhood filled with daily and weekly halaqas studying various books of Quran, Hadith and Fiqh, with her earliest memories reflecting on Imam An-Nawawi’s 40 Hadith and Riyadh-as-Saliheen, Heba grew up leading family halaqas, and went on to lead sisters halaqas in Sydney since 2008.

A lifelong student of Quran (Tafseer and Tajweed) and Seerah, Heba began formal study in Hafs an Asim Tajweed recitation in 2000 and began teaching Tajweed in 2011. She has also undertaken formal in-depth tertiary-level academic study in Fiqh and Aqeedah from various local and international teachers and institutes since 2007.

One of Heba’s earliest role models was her late grandfather, Sheikh Mohammed Ibrahim, who was one of Brisbane’s respected Imams. As a young man, he was a gifted student who received a scholarship to study in Al-Azhar University, became a mufti of Daar-al-Iftaa, and spent his life travelling the world teaching. Heba shares a similar love of travel, teaching and servitude.

Following the diagnosis of her daughter Ruqaya with childhood cancer in 2018, Heba began to experience the beginnings of her spiritual awakening in February 2020, thereupon initiating divorce, relocating to live alone with her daughter, and going on to study Tazkiyah and Zuhd, to come to terms with her grief and fear. As she deepened her spirituality studies, Heba was faced with incredible trials in her personal life, including domestic abuse and violence, coercive control and parental alienation, culminating in the death of her daughter on May 24, 2022.

In July 2022, in the pits of her grief, Allah inspired Heba to walk into Sydney airport with nothing but the clothes on her back, her passport, purse, phone and laptop, and book a one-way ticket out of Australia. She spent the next year immersing herself in Tasawuf and non-attachment, solo travelling and meditating all over the world. Heba now shares her learnings and Love of Allah and His Messenger with like-hearted sisters she meets across the globe seeking enlightenment.

In her professional life, Heba is a women’s leadership and wellbeing consultant, event host and storyteller, women’s health and pelvic floor physiotherapy university lecturer and international educator, meditative movement therapist (combining her background in clinical pilates, classical yoga, tai chi, aerial hammock, interpretive dance and various forms of meditation), social impact advocate and humanitarian. Driven by excellence and her passion for women’s social and reproductive justice, Heba is renowned for her advocacy and contributions to women’s health and wellbeing in Australia and globally.