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Imam Muhammad Abuelezz was born in Egypt to a family of al-Azhar scholars. His father was an Azhari scholar and Imam in the Ministry of Endowments (Al-Awqaf). His mother was a teacher in Al-Azhar too. He has two brothers who have also graduated from Al-Azhar and are now working as Imams in Egypt.

Imam Abuelezz attended at Al-Azhar for his middle school and high school. He joined the faculty of languages and translation, and graduated with BA degree in Islamic Studies in English in 2001. He went on to finish his post graduate work at Al-Azhar in the  Islamic Studies Department. He is a Hafiz of the Holy Qur'an and holds Ijazah in Hafs Recitation. He has been working in the field of Da'wah since he was in high school. After graduation, he worked for six years as an Imam in Egypt before coming to the USA for advanced studies about the Muslims in North America.

In 2008, Imam Abuelezz worked for IslamOnline website as a religious researcher in English Fatwa section. He got a scholarship to do his masters at the University of Georgia with his thesis being "The Challenges Facing Imams in America". He got honor to help the Muslim community in Athens Georgia as a volunteer Imam during his study. In 2011 he also served as an imam of the Islamic center of Tallahassee, Florida. 

Imam Abuelezz believes that Imam's work is a great responsibility and very hard to achieve success in it without the help of Allah. Therefore he is asking the brothers and sisters of the Muslim community in Kitchener to pray that Allah grant him success in serving Islam.