Sheikh hussain yee biography

Preacher from Malaysia

Hussain Yee or Hussein Yee (born 1950), is a Malaysian Islamic preacher and an International Da'i of Islam as well as the President of Pertubuhan Al-Khaadem in Malaysia.^[2][3]

Background

Early years

Born into a BuddhistMalaysian Chinese family, Hussain Yee converted to Islam at the age of 18.

Yee studied under the scholar Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani.^[4]

Positions held

Hussain Yee is the Founder and President of Al-Khaadem.^[5]

Among other positions, he spent a year in 1980 as an Advisor for the Cambodian Islamic Refugee Organisation in Paris, France. He has also served as a Counsellor at PERKIM Kuala Lumpur and as the Director of Da’wah for the Islamic Center in Hong Kong from 1984 to 1985.^[6]

Controversy and response

In 2015, he gave a keynote address at the Australian Islamic Peace Conference (AIPC), which was attended by religious leaders from Jewish and Christian faiths.

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