Erum Rab was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. She moved to New York where she completed her BS degree in Business Economics from the State University of New York at Oneonta and then completed her MBA degree from Clarkson University. She has taught Economics, Business Communication, and English to university level students. She began persuing her Classical Islamic Education, first from Zaynab Academy and then from Sameera Institute, where Arabic became her favorite subject. She has been teaching Arabic at Sameera Institute for a few years now.