Ferid Heider

Ferid Heider was born in Berlin on January 28, 1979, the son of an Iraqi father and a Polish mother. He is married with two daughters and lives in Berlin-Spandau. Ferid Heider attended high school in Berlin Charlottenburg. After he finished school after grade 10 and seemed to be slipping into... the criminal underworld, his parents sent him to a foreign family in a village in Egypt. There he attended high school. He now had to manage for a year in a society, culture and language that was foreign to him. After initial difficulties in life in the rural Egyptian province, young Ferid Heider acclimatized and accepted his situation in foreign Egypt. The modesty and contentment of people and classmates living in poverty had a particularly strong influence on the young Ferid Heider, and he set about searching for the source of their modesty and contentment in all things. He recognized that the key to these people's happiness and contentment lay in the Islamic faith and began to become more involved and enthusiastic about this faith, which had previously been alien to him. He learned Arabic and discovered that Islam could give him stability. From 1995 to 2001, he graduated from high school in Egypt and learned the Quran by heart at the well-established institutions of Al-Azhar. He dealt extensively with the law and its basics according to Imam Ash-Schāfiʿī school of law. What was once a year turned into six years in Egypt. After the six years, he returned to Berlin and obtained his German Abitur, in order to begin studying Arabic studies at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2006. to approach, which he completed in 2010 with the treatise on the "Verses Satanic" with a Bachelor of Arts. In the years 2003 - 2007, Ferid Heider took a correspondence course in Islam at the European Institute of Human Sciences in Château-Chinon (France), in which he deepened his knowledge of Sharia, Fiqh, Aqida and Usul ud-Din. Furthermore, from 2006 to 2009, he completed his studies at the German Islamic Information Service (DIdI), in which he gained extensive knowledge of tafsir, usul-ul-fiqh and hadith. acquired. Upon completion of his studies, he wrote the extensive work "Introduction to Hadith Science" in 2009. In 2012, he gained the authority to narrate and transcribe Sahih Al-Bukhari from Sheikh Aiman Swaid. Public minister Ferid Heider is a preacher, imam and teacher in several Berlin congregations (IZDB, IKEZ, NBS, Teiba Kulturzentrum, Bilal Mosque and DMK). He is also a lecturer at the Institute of Islamology in Vienna. He has also been chairman of the Teiba cultural center in Spandau since 2009. He is also involved in the Berlin Muslim Initiative (IBMus), the Council of Islamic Centers, where he is responsible for German-language educational work, and other Muslim networks in Berlin and Germany.

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