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Mufti Hamzah Moola is a South African Islamic scholar, imam, Hafiz of the Quran, youth educator and public speaker known particularly for his work with young Muslims and his use of social media for Islamic outreach. Based in South Africa, he has developed a growing public profile through mosque programmes, lectures and online content addressing Islamic teachings as well as practical issues affecting Muslim youth. Hamzah Moola was born and raised in Lenasia, South Africa, a community with a well-established tradition of Islamic education and scholarship. He began memorising the Quran at approximately ten years of age and completed his Hifdh, becoming a Hafiz of the Quran. Following his Quranic studies, Moola continued into formal Islamic scholarship. He enrolled at Jamiah Al-Ulum Al-Islamiyyah, where he undertook a six-year Alim course covering the traditional Islamic sciences. His studies included Arabic, Quranic studies, Hadith, Islamic jurisprudence and other branches of Islamic scholarship. He completed the Alim programme in 2020. He subsequently pursued advanced studies in Islamic jurisprudence at the Ifta Department of Darul Uloom Zakariyya in South Africa. Through this specialised programme, Moola studied Fiqh and the principles involved in answering Islamic legal questions. He completed his Ifta studies before Ramadan 2023. His formal Islamic education therefore includes Hifdh of the Quran, completion of an Alim course and specialised Ifta studies. In March 2021, Hamzah Moola began serving as an imam at Quwatul Islam Masjid. Alongside his responsibilities as an imam, he became involved in programmes at mosques and Islamic institutions across South Africa. These engagements allowed him to interact with different Muslim communities and increasingly shaped his focus on working with younger audiences. A significant feature of Mufti Hamzah Moola’s work is his engagement with Muslim youth. Rather than limiting his activities to conventional mosque le