Sidi Uthman Bhally has a BA (Hons) in Education Studies and Religious Studies. He is a teacher at HA Meem College and Lote tree Foundation. Sidi Uthman travelled to Damascus in 2006 where he studied Arabic at The Abū al-Nūr Institute. He completed al-Nahw al-Wadih fi Qawa’id al-Lughat al-‘Arabiya (The Clear Arabic Grammar) under the tutelage of Shaykh Yusuf Coulibaly (graduate of the prestige Ma’had al-Fath al-Islami Damascus).

On his return in 2009 Sidi Uthman, studied the classical text Al-Bayqūniyyah with Sidi jawad chaudhry.

Sidi Uthman was blessed to receive an ijaza by the late As-Sayyid Al-Habib Ustadh Muhammad Bin Shariff Saeed bin Abdallah al-Beidh in the Compendium of Prophetic Beauty: As-Shamail Al-Muhammadiyya. Sidi Uthman read and received an ijaza in the epistle of Imam Al- Ghazali, Ayyahal Walad by Sheikh Ahmad Muhammad Saad Ash-Shafi’ie Al-Azhari Al-Hasani. Sidi Uthman studied Bidayat al Hidayat of Imam al Ghazali with Shaykh Dr Kurram Hasan and received an ijaza in it by Shaykh Muhammad Abu Bakr Ba Shu’ayb and Shaykh Dr Ridwan Saleem.

Also, Sidi Uthman has ijazas by Imam Asif Raza in the classic manuals of Hanafi law Nur al- Idah, al Quduri and in classical aqeedah text Aqeedah Nasafiyyah of Imam Nasafi.

In 1999, he was the first to introduce the Ba’alawi tradition to Luton. He helped organize the town’s inaugural Shimmering light Mawlid gathering with Shaykh Muhammed Ba Shuaib at the Selbourne Road Masjid. Sidi Uthman also played a key role in the early development of the Fountain Institute, facilitating the introduction of influential figures like Habib Umar, Habib Ali, Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad, and Shaykh Mohammed Adam and also for bringing Shaykh Thaqib Mahmood to Luton.