An educationist by profession, Jamil has worked in Pakistan, Kashmir, Saudi Arabia and Canada as an ESL /EFL teacher and academic coordinator for over twenty years. He has a Master's degree in English, a Cambridge CELTA from the UK and a TESL diploma from Canada. He learnt Tajweed in Saudi Arabia where he taught English at a university for seven years.
He established Burlington Qur'an Academy when he moved to Burlington, Ontario in 2014.