Suwaid was born in Aleppo and graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Aleppo in 1979. He studied under prominent scholars and pious figures in Syria. He was forced to leave his city of Aleppo in August 1980 and never returned until his death. He moved to Kuwait in November 1981, where he worked as a consulting engineer until the end of his life.

Suwaid was known for his asceticism and detachment from worldly possessions, content with a good reputation and charitable deeds that formed an integral part of his life. He was renowned for his humility and dedication to doing good, which earned him the respect and affection of all who knew him.

Suwaid was a companion of the renowned scholar, Sheikh Yusuf al-Rifai (may God have mercy on him). He authored numerous beneficial books on Islamic culture, including “Al-Fara’id al-Hasan fi Tajwid al-Qur’an” (The Beautiful Pearls in the Recitation of the Qur’an), in addition to his most prominent work, “Manhaj al-Tarbiya al-Nabawiyya lil-Tifl” (The Prophetic Methodology for Child Education), which was published in two volumes and sold over seventy thousand copies in various Arab countries.

The book was introduced by prominent scholars such as the late Sheikh Abu al-Hasan al-Nadwi, Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Fawzi Faydullah, Head of the Department of Jurisprudence and its Foundations at Kuwait University and Damascus University, and the late Sheikh Abdul Rahman Habannakah, Professor at Umm al-Qura University in Mecca.

Among his famous sayings: “The call to revise the Islamic heritage is a false claim. Islamic jurisprudence is not a heritage, but rather a religion. It is true that it is the product of human reasoning, but it is based on three constants: the Holy Quran, the Prophetic Sunnah, and scholarly consensus.”