A Sudanese Egyptian living in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Hajj Khalid graduated from the American University in Cairo in Pharmacology. He has studied under Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani and Shaykh Hisham Kabbani for the past 20 years. He is fluent in classical Arabic prose and poetry and has ijaza from Shaykh Nazim to lead dhikr, answer questions to students of Islamic sciences, and to interpret dreams.