Shaykh Omar completed his Bachelor's degree at the University of Missouri - Columbia in Microbiology in 1995 and later obtained a M.Ed. in Science Education - Curriculum and Instruction from the same institution. As a teacher in Saudi Arabia, he also studied various Islamic Sciences with Shaykh Abdallah al-Kadi and Shaykh Salman Abu-Ghuddah. He continued his Islamic studies in Damascus, Syria at Ma'had al-Tahdhib wa-l-Ta'lim and privately with local Damascene scholars such as Shaykh Hussain Darwish. Currently Shaykh Omar is an upper school science teacher at Morgan Park Academy in Chicago. In addition to teaching, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education and Comparative Education at Loyola University Chicago, where he is focusing on Muslim moral educational philosohy. He continues his studies in the Islamic sciences with Dr. Umar F. Abd-Allah and Shaykh Mohammad Amin.