Sidi Uthman Bhally holds a BA (Hons) in Education Studies and Religious Studies. He teaches at Lote Tree Foundation.

In 2006, he traveled to Damascus to study Arabic at The Abū al-Nūr Institute, completing Al-Nahw al-Wadih fi Qawa’id al-Lughat al-‘Arabiya under Shaykh Yusuf Coulibaly. After returning in 2009, he studied Al-Bayqūniyyah with Sidi Jawad Chaudhry.

He received an ijaza in As-Shamail Al-Muhammadiyya from the late As-Sayyid Al-Habib Ustadh Muhammad Bin Shariff Saeed bin Abdallah al-Beidh. He also obtained ijazas in Ayyuhal Walad from Shaykh Ahmad Muhammad Saad Ash-Shafi’ie Al-Azhari Al-Hasani and Bidayat al-Hidayah from Shaykh Dr. Kurram Hasan, Shaykh Muhammad Abu Bakr Ba Shu’ayb, and Shaykh Dr. Ridwan Saleem. Additionally, he holds ijazas from Imam Asif Raza in Nur al-Idah, al-Quduri, and Aqeedah Nasafiyyah.

Sidi Uthman has been teaching and been active in outreach work for over 20 years; running workshops with the police, social services, NHS and mainstream school teachers.