Shaykh Maher ibn Hamad ibn Muaiqel al-Muaiqly al-Balawi was born in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, in 1969. He is a prominent Saudi Arabian Imam and Qur'an reciter and has served as an Imam at the Masjid al-Haram in Makkah. He graduated from the Teachers College in Madinah, where he studied mathematics, and later moved to Makkah al-Mukarramah to work as a teacher. He subsequently served as a student guide