Ismail ibn Musa Menk

Mufti Ismail ibn Musa Menk (born 27 June 1975) is a Zimbabwean Islamic speaker.

He is the Grand Mufti of Zimbabwe's Muslim community, and head of the fatwa department for the Council of Islamic Scholars of Zimbabwe.

Menk was born on 27 June 1975 in Salisbury to Gujarati Indian Muslim parents from the Bharuchi Vohra Patel community.

He is the son of Maulana Musa Ibrahim Menk, a Muslim preacher in Zimbabwe.

Mufti Menk is able to speak Gujarati and Urdu and undertook his initial studies with his father, memorizing the Quran and learning Arabic.

He went to St. John's College (Harare) for senior school.

He then completed his religious education and Mufti course from Kantharia Darul Uloom located in Gujarat, India.

and also in Madinah.

Menk has been identified as a Deobandi as well as a Salafi.

Menk opposes terrorism and has pledged his aid in curbing religious extremism in the Maldives.

Menk was named one of The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the world by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in Jordan in 2013, 2014 and 2017.

On 31 October 2017, Singapore banned Menk from its borders because it believes he expresses views incompatible with its multicultural laws and policies.

According to the Straits Times, he has asserted that "it is blasphemous for Muslims to greet believers of other faiths during festivals such as Christmas or Diwali".

Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement that its decision to reject Menk's application for a short-term work pass stemmed from his "segregationist and divisive teachings".

The Majlisul Ulama Zimbabwe, Menk's own institution, released a statement to express "regret and dismay" regarding the ban.

It said that Menk was an "asset to multi‐cultural, multi‐religious Zimbabwe" and that viewers should "listen to his sermons in full" and not "edited clips of a few minutes" to see the moderate path he has chosen.

On 31 March 2018, he urged Liberian Muslims to avoid Muslim—Christian violence, arguing that Muslims and Christians are brothers and sisters from one father, The Prophet Adam.

He blames western media for misleading the world that Muslims are terrorists.

According to Gulf News, Menk said that everyone on this earth is a part of a family and has one maker, therefore, no one has the right to force any belief or faith on another.

In September 2023, Mufti Menk visited Trinidad and Tobago during his special visits in the Caribbean.

MP Saddam Hosein, while sharing a Facebook post expressed that he is honored with a visit from an international beacon of peace and understanding.

In 2018 he published a collection of his sayings as a book titled Motivational Moments and in 2019 published the second edition, titled Motivational Moments 2.

Menk visited Pakistan in September 2022 to highlight flood-hit areas of Sindh.

In November 2018, the Danish government banned Menk from entering its borders for 2 years.