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 Ge…