Burbank was considered by his mosque as a "pre-eminent translator of religious texts"[4] and is said to have translated more than 60 books from Arabic into the English language.[4] According to the Salafi Mosque director, Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid, Burbank “was well known and probably the best Arabic to English language translators in the entire West.”[2] at the Salafi Mosque in Small Heath within the city of Birmingham.[5]