2 - FALSE CLAIMS & CREDENTIALS AND VIOLATION OF TRUST
Upon Dunia backing up her iPhone (prior to upgrading) to my computer, her audio recordings became mixed with mine. In trying to sort it out, I was shocked to find multiple private conversations with shuyūkh and community leaders that she secretly recorded.
One of her private recordings was with Imām Siraj Wahhaj (may Allāh protect and preserve him). She tells him, “Muslim men are disgusting” and about all these people trying to secretly marry her and about a new trend with imāms, where they are all secretly marrying in different states. She goes on telling him about all these girls coming up to her everywhere she travels and that they are talking about all these huge prominent shuyūkh that married them for a weekend and then wouldn’t answer their calls. “So for me, I have so many people telling me, do it, Sr. Dunia do it. You’re the only psychologist, marriage therapist, who also has Islamic studies, who can also read and write in Arabi and Qur’ān and do it, do it, do it.” She goes on to criticize other shuyūkh saying, “I went to Malaysia and I saw with my own eyes, what some of these people are doing coming from America, these huge names.”
In a conversation with another internationally-renowned and married shaykh, she brings up the topic of intimacy in a completely inappropriate discussion (while we were in the process of getting married). She mentions Shaykh Yasir Qadhi’s “Like a Garment” course, how he mentions all these ridiculous things about intimacy … that it destroyed everything she learned from the Islamic world on marriage and that it goes against what any marriage therapist in the world would tell you. The shaykh plays in to the conversation as well, saying when he listened to it, he totally disagreed on that as well. She goes on to tell him that she is having a hard time finding someone because “I need someone that is mature.” This is all while we were in a relationship and working towards getting married. She even had the audacity to refer to me as this brother who spoke to her about the reasons for his previous divorce. She also mentions to him, regarding Shaykh Yasir Qadhi, “I actually sent him an email and I met with him. I was like, I took your course the first time, I took your course the second time, I took your course a third time. I was like I have so much respect for you, but guess what? I’m a certified therapist and I’m going to tell you what you’re teaching is wrong and please stop teaching that. I’m like, please don’t do that.”
[Audio] Private Conversation with Imam Siraj Wahhaj – Part I:
[Audio] Private Conversation with Imam Siraj Wahhaj – Part II:
[Audio] Private Conversation with Imam Siraj Wahhaj – Part III:
[Audio] Private Conversation with Shaykh Daood Butt:
- I hope this will serve as a wakeup call for shuyūkh who had inappropriate conversations with her. And I hope that spouses (both husbands and wives) will have a serious discussion on the protocol and adab of having conversations with the opposite gender (non-mahram) and whether those conversations should happen in private. Unfortunately, hearing some of these recordings was quite shocking, especially on the topic of intimacy with multiple shuyūkh.
- I have been witness to communication with multiple shuyūkh, while Dunia had them on speakerphone, and it is disheartening to see how these married men would speak to her (casual conversation, tone of voice, etc). With one prominent shaykh, he had a scheduled time to talk to her and he delayed it, waiting until his wife left to pickup the kids from school.
- I hope that for future personal conversations people have with Dunia, they will specifically seek confirmation from her that she is not recording them.
Dunia has continued to make false claims and impressions about being a certified therapist. This is an absolute lie and should be held accountable for lying to and misleading people. In addition to the fabricated story she relayed about being a “certified therapist” (recording above with Shaykh Daood Butt), she continues to cast a false impression of being a therapist and conducting counseling sessions for couples.
[Video] Dunia Talking About Doing Marriage & Family Therapy:
“… especially, you know, doing marriage and family therapy, one of the things that I’ve seen most of my couples …”
[Video] Dunia Retracting Her Position on Being a Therapist and Performing Counseling:
“I do not perform any type of counseling. I am not a licensed therapist.”
For years during our marriage, Dunia would continue to demonize her sister-in-law, Baha, always casting her in a bad light. Almost 9 months after our divorce, she called me crying saying that her now ex-sister-in-law, Baha, came up to her a few days ago and called her an adultress in front of her friends and then tried to run her over in the parking lot — attempted murder! When I asked about when this happened, she said a few days ago at a “Qalam event.” I patiently listened to her fabricated story and afterwards contacted Baha to hear her side of the story. She had in fact recorded her interaction with Dunia … and it is clear that Dunia added pieces to the conversation … including the “zaniya” (adultress) comment.
I would eventually email her and call her out on her lies, as I was actually at the same Roots event. She called me back two days later and admitted she was referring to the Roots event. Despite that, in an effort to prove her lies, she called one of her friends and wanted me to listen in, in hopes she would prove it to me. She didn’t call either of the two friends that were supposedly with her in this alleged running over incident … instead she called another friend to relay what happened. I’ve included portions of our conversations, where she continues to spew lies.
[Audio] Adding to the Story Regarding a Different Runover Attempt:
Witnesses Mentioned: Fatuma, Karwana, Najah
[Audio] Invoking Hadith About Liars While Lying:
I’m not sure if there can be anything more sickening than speaking about the hadith of lying while clearly lying. Also, I hope she will provide the list of Qalam events that Baha had been coming to. When I asked Baha about this, she clearly stated she doesn’t go any of the Qalam events or halaqas. The only event she had been attending for years (prior to Dunia) was the Roots programs.
[Audio] Attempting to Appear as a Victim:
She makes claims to have anxiety in an effort to gain my sympathy. In addition, she blames a Qalam teacher for making her look evil.
[Audio] Claiming Her Ex-Sister-in-Law Was Trying to Pursue Her Other Married Brother, Samir:
[Audio] Calling Her Ex-Sister-in-Law Fu**ing Psycho:
[Audio] Calling Her Ex-Sister-in-Law Fu**ing Crazy:
My acknowledgment is of her telling me in the past that she doesn’t want anything to do with her.
[Audio] Calling Out Dunia on Changing Her Story:
[Audio] Dunia Telling Me to Go to Hell:
[Audio] Dunia Expanding on Her String of Lies:
Claims Made:
- One of her classmates (who was present when she was apparently almost run over) spoke with Mufti Kamani about it
- That same friend suggested filing a police report and that she would give a statement
- She called a non-emergency line and they said if she files it, that her ex-sister-in-law will not be able to go anywhere she is. She said she was going to talk to Mufti Kamani about this, because it would mean depriving someone of going to the masjid.
I hope Mufti Kamani will provide an update to these conversations (if they actually occurred).
[Audio] Dunia Conveying Lies to Her Friend While Having Me Listen:
- Mentions that Sana went and spoke to Mufti Kamani regarding this incident
- Reiterates the incident of where Baha allegedly tried to run her over in another incident (at MAS) with Fatuma and Najah as witnesses
- Elaborates on walking to her car with Sana & Dimple while Baha allegedly tried to run them over at Roots
- Makes another claim about an incident at the Valley Ranch Islamic Center post-Fajr
Despite all of these attempts on her life by trying to run her over (murder her), she has not filed a single police report. None of the shuyūkh, organization leaders, or property managers were informed about these events. WHY?!! I hope the aforementioned witnesses are willing to testify on these series of events.
[Audio] Audio of Baha’s Interaction with Dunia at Roots:
In all honesty, I do not think it was appropriate or necessary, despite whatever issues she might have had with Dunia. But if you listen closely, there is no mention of her saying Dunia is a “zaniya” … something Dunia has repeated multiple times as a part of the incident. That, in and of itself, is such a heavy accusation to attribute to someone. It doesn’t surprise me though, as she testified in court against me, saying that I committed zina in our marriage.
One of the courses that Dunia sold to people all around the world, to which I helped her with everything, was Secrets to Lasting Love. She marketed an entire curriculum with bonus videos. Unfortunately, after preselling this to so many people (and profiting thousand and thousands of dollars), she entirely abandoned filming these. As people became impatient requesting a status on when the upcoming videos were coming, she would continue claiming technical difficulties, along with other excuses, though she simply did not want to continue working on the content. She would begin discussing other courses she wanted to work on, to which I kept reminding her about the amanah (trust) of finishing the one she had already sold to people. She would dismiss this every time and would end up recording many other courses (both free and paid). This is a clear violation of trust and business ethics. I hope she will reach out to all the students that paid with their hard-earned money many years back and provide them a refund.
I contacted Launchgood support, along with the founders of Launchgood, Chris & Amany, (as she has run multiple campaigns to raise money for her own organization), detailing how she had cheated people from all around the world out of thousands of dollars. They closed the investigation shortly after and said they do not find the campaign to be fraudulent. It appears that Launchgood’s position is that they will continue to allow and support people to use their platform, even if someone has cheated people out of money in the past.
This is only a subset of sales. Many of the courses were sold in person using vouchers and not through the online Teachable platform.
This was one of many times I kept reminding Dunia on the heavy amanah/trust of fulfilling the commitment of delivering courses that people spent a lot of money on (many spending over $100).
For many years, Dunia has been using a fake persona by the name of Noor Shareef for much of her correspondences. She has always told people that Noor manages her speaking engagements, schedules, and requests. For many people and organizations that have reached out to her over the years, you will have seen emails from her so-called assistant, Noor Shareef. She has even faked communication with her and tried to make people believe she is real person, pretending to meet “Noor” in person to work on projects.
On November 18th of 2021, in the middle of the COVID pandemic, Dunia was embarking on an Umrah trip, out of the DFW airport, organized by Qalam Institute and lead by AbdelRahman Murphy. She called me in a state of panic and crying, trying to figure out what to do because she did not have the required COVID test, and the airline would not let her fly. She ended up presenting/submitting a Photoshopped document in order to bypass the requirements and could have put thousands of people at risk (in the airport, flights, her umrah group, and in the Holy Cities) had she actually had Covid (for which many people can be asymptomatic – not showing any symptoms).
[Document] Photoshopped Document Used by Dunia to Bypass Airline Safety Restrictions:
I’d request Heal360 to check their records … they will NOT find that they administered a COVID RT-PCR test on Dunia.