Wadi Annuar

Mohammad Wadi Annuar bin Ayub (born 20 September 1983), known as Ustaz Wadi Annuar, is a Malaysian youth-focused preacher who specialised in Shariah and Arabic in Damascus and founded Akademi Darul Ilmi in Sungai Petani, Kedah. {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-ms} {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-en} ISEAS analysis in October 2026 counted 3.4 million TikTok and 1.3 million Instagram followers for him, and his "Ride Dakwah Anak Muda" event in Alor Setar drew some 40,000 participants in September 2026. {cite:source/fulcrum-wadi-annuar-rdam-2026}

Wadi Annuar was born in Sungai Petani, Kedah, in northern Malaysia, and studied at local religious schools including Sekolah Menengah Agama Tarbiah al-Nasihin and Maktab Mahmud in Alor Setar. {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-ms} In 2001 he travelled to Syria and specialised in Shariah and Arabic at the Al Fatah Islamic Institute in Damascus. {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-ms} {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-en}

He began as a teacher in private religious schools and a travelling lecturer, then in 2016 founded Maahad Tahfiz al-Annuar, a Qur'an-memorisation school in Taman Ria, Sungai Petani, which he led until 2018. {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-ms} He went on to found Akademi Darul Ilmi in Sungai Petani, which he chairs, founded the NGO Pertubuhan Khidmat Ummah in 2021, and became chief executive of Dakwah Global Sdn. Bhd. in 2022. {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-ms} {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-en} He holds preaching accreditation (tauliah) from the religious authorities of Kedah, Penang, Perak, Selangor and most other Malaysian states. {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-ms}

Wadi Annuar appeared as a panellist on TV3's Al-Kuliyyah and presented religious series including Semusim Di Barzakh on TV Al-Hijrah, the 29-episode Figura Akhir Zaman on RTM, Akhir Dunia on Astro Oasis and Riwayat Akhir Zaman. {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-ms} His short sermons circulating on the platforms centre on the signs of the end times and the lives of the Companions; the Kosmo newspaper wrote in 2022 that his moving sermons bring listeners to tears. {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-ms} He has lectured abroad in Singapore, Britain, Thailand, Brunei, Australia and Japan, among other countries. {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-ms}

With ESR Motor, Wadi Annuar launched Ride Dakwah Anak Muda ("Youth Dawah Ride"), an initiative aimed at the young motorbike riders known in Malaysia as "mat motor", begun at the initiative of Ustaz Ahmad Yusof. {cite:source/fulcrum-wadi-annuar-rdam-2026} Its main gathering on 19 September 2026 in Alor Setar had to move from Akademi Darul Ilmi to Stadium Sultan Abdul Halim as attendance reached some 40,000, mostly young people, for talks, congregational prayer and football. {cite:source/fulcrum-wadi-annuar-rdam-2026}

What follows are positions attributed to their sources, not verdicts of the museum. ISEAS's study of Malaysia's celebrity ustazahs notes researchers counting Wadi Annuar among the preachers who openly supported the PAS–Perikatan Nasional alliance at the fifteenth general election and urged voters to follow them. {cite:source/iseas-perspective-2025-81-ustazahs}

His book Andai Umat Ini Seperti Umar Al-Khattab ("If Only This Ummah Were Like Umar al-Khattab") was published by PTS Publishing House in 2019. {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-ms}

Wadi Annuar was named a Dakwah Icon of YADIM (the Islamic Dawah Foundation of Malaysia) for 2021–2022 and received an Islamic Motivator of the Year award in 2024. {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-ms} His dated platform figures: 3.4 million TikTok and 1.3 million Instagram followers per Fulcrum's October 2026 analysis, with the English article recording 1.2 million Instagram followers at the end of December 2024. {cite:source/fulcrum-wadi-annuar-rdam-2026} {cite:source/wikipedia-wadi-annuar-en}

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