A Decade of Impact. A Future of Hope.

Dr. Khalid Siddiq came to Atlanta from Pakistan more than forty-eight years ago, and he has been associated with Al-Farooq Masjid in one capacity or another since its beginning in 1980, serving twenty-five years as its Director and later as Chairman of both the Dar Un Noor school building committee and the New Masjid Construction Committee. He volunteers today as Director of Outreach, Educational Programs, and Public Relations at Al-Farooq, where he and his team have hosted and presented on Islam to more than 28,000 non-Muslim visitors. He is a regular khateeb at the masjid, he has taught Islam to new Muslims for the past ten years, and he served on the Shura Council of Atlanta Masajid, including a two-year term as its Coordinator.

Interfaith relations have been a particular commitment. He served as Chairman of the Interfaith Coalition of Metro Atlanta and later on the board of the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta, and he is a past President of the Pakistan American Society of Atlanta. He has served on the board of CAIR-Georgia for more than twenty years, has been named among the 100 most influential Muslims of Georgia, and speaks frequently on Islam at universities, at symposia, and on television.

By profession Dr. Siddiq is a physician specializing in endocrinology, with postgraduate medical degrees from Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. He served on the Emory faculty, was President of the American Diabetes Association's Georgia Affiliate from 1989 to 1990, and sat for two years on the Governor's Diabetes Advisory Board of Georgia. Atlanta magazine has ranked him among its Top Doctors in Endocrinology, and he is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from APPNA Georgia. CAIR-Georgia is presenting Dr. Siddiq with the Legacy of Service Award for a lifetime spent building the institutions Georgia Muslims rely on.

Habeeb Al Aidroos trained as a Computer Engineer in India and has spent more than two decades in information technology, developing and leading teams. Alongside that career he has given years to the service of masajid and nonprofit organizations, and he currently serves on the board of Hamzah Science Academy.

His organizing work reaches across the Georgia Muslim community. He has worked with Georgia Muslims and Allies for Peace, the Georgia Muslim Civic Table, the Indian American Muslim Council, and the Georgia Muslim Action Committee, and his campaign work includes Get Out the Vote drives, the No Peace No Peach campaign, and the Uncommitted movement. He also helped shape and build Siyasa, a modern political engagement platform designed to empower, educate, and mobilize American Muslims to become active participants in the democratic process.

At CAIR-Georgia he has extended the chapter's reach as a volunteer advocate who brings technical skill, persistence, and a willingness to show up when the work requires it. He attends public hearings, speaks forcefully about civil rights, and carries the chapter's work to people the organization might not otherwise reach. He has also built technical tools that made direct advocacy easier to join, allowing more community members to contact decision makers without having to navigate a complicated process on their own. CAIR-Georgia is presenting Habeeb with the Changemaker Award for volunteer service that has made CAIR-Georgia's work more effective and more accessible.

Imam Nadim Sulaiman Ali is the Imam Emeritus of the Al-Ummah affiliated Community Masjid of Atlanta and a former Convener of the Metro Atlanta Majlis Ash-Shura. A native of Chester, Pennsylvania, he embraced Islam in Philadelphia in 1978 under the auspices of the Darul Islam Movement and has called Atlanta home since 1979, where for nearly five decades he has been engaged in Muslim community life at both the local and national levels.

For nearly twenty years he led the Community Masjid of Atlanta, a masjid long associated with Imam Jamil Al-Amin, and under his stewardship it became a spiritual home for generations of Atlanta Muslims and helped establish the West End as a center of Muslim community life. In January 2025 he transferred leadership to Imam Kwame Nkrumah Thomas and became Imam Emeritus, describing the transition not as passing his own torch but as lighting the next person's. He is a founding member of the Muslim Alliance in North America, where he serves as Secretary, he volunteers with the Islamic Speakers Bureau, and he has served as a khatib at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

For more than thirty years he has practiced as a Licensed Professional Counselor and Master Addiction Counselor in Georgia, providing individual, premarital, and marital counseling to Muslim and non-Muslim couples alike, presenting at conferences across the United States and the Middle East on substance abuse, domestic violence, conflict resolution, healthy marriages, and spirituality.

His commitment to justice began early. As a youth he participated in the Civil Rights Movement, and in the years since he has taken part in anti-war activism, the movement against South African apartheid, advocacy for Palestinian rights, and efforts to secure the release of political prisoners in the United States. He is the husband of Sister Mu'mina Ali, married for 47 years, and together they are the parents of five children. CAIR-Georgia is presenting Imam Nadim with the Lifetime Civic Achievement Award for a lifetime of relentless commitment to the Muslim community and to the betterment of our world.

Imam Dr. Sulaimaan Hamed serves as the resident Imam of the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam, one of the largest Islamic centers in the Southeast and a community affiliated with that of his late teacher, Imam W.D. Muhammad. A student of Religious Studies, he has taught Arabic and the Islamic sciences at the Mohammed Schools, and Islamic Theology and Islamic Law for the Faith Institute of the Atlanta Masjid.

Educated primarily in private Islamic schools in the United States, he received specialized training at Abu Nour University in Damascus, Syria, completing courses in jurisprudence, Arabic, Prophetic traditions, and theology, and his studies and teaching have since taken him to Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Senegal. He is the founder and co-operator of Professional Hajj and Umrah Guides, LLC, known as Hajj Pros, a religious travel agency specializing in the Hajj pilgrimage and study abroad opportunities.

Passionate about strengthening Islamic institutions of education, Imam Sulaimaan holds a Master of Divinity and a Doctor of Ministry from the Claremont School of Theology and Bayan Islamic Graduate School, and his publications include "Ramadan: The Month of Purification and Self-Restraint." He resides in Atlanta with his wife and children. Imam Dr. Sulaimaan joins CAIR-Georgia this evening to lead the community in the closing du’a.