Mualima Ruwayda Ariefdien studied at the FatimaTuz Zahra Institute under Mln Dawood Sampson and completed my degree at Dar Al Arqam. She then went on to receive her Honours in Arabic at the University of the Western Cape. She studied at Madina Institute in 2017. She is currently lecturing at Madina Institute South Africa in the subjects of Arabic, Hanafi fiqh, Tafseer and Hanafi usul fiqh.