Sayyid Asad Jafri was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He grew up in a very active Islamic community and family background. Sayyid Asad holds a Bachelor of Computer Science Degree from the US. He worked for IBM and thereafter moved to Iran and entered the Islamic seminary of Qom, Iran and completed his degree in Quranic Sciences.

Sayyid Asad is an instructor at Tasneem Institute.