A Texas imam and well-known former Quran instructor is jailed in Alabama on a federal charge of conspiracy to produce child pornography.

The charge against Wisam A. Sharieff, 43, is connected to the arrest last month of a 50-year-old Chelsea woman – Blake Miller Barakat – who was jailed in Shelby County on 23 child sex charges with bond set at $1.9 million.

Sharieff founded and led the Quran Revolution program – an online course aimed at recitation and retention of the religious scripture of Islam. He was a teacher at the Houston-based AlMaghrib Institute and taught more than 25,000 students worldwide.

Not only did he coach Barakat in Quran, according to federal documents, but also in the sexual abuse of the young female victim.

“Sharieff told (Barakat) that achieving an orgasm would help her spiritually and allow her to communicate better with Allah,” wrote FBI Special Agent Eric Salvador, who is a member of the agency’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force based in Birmingham.

Sharieff also told Barakat that he wanted to help the juvenile victim, who is under the age of 12, also better understand Allah, so Barakat bought the child a vibrator and showed her how to use while watching pornography, the complaint states.

Sharieff went before a federal judge Tuesday and was ordered to remain in custody pending trial.

Officials at the AlMaghrib Institute issued a statement saying they were “horrified” by the allegations against Sharieff.

“This criminal allegation against Wisam Sharieff is a jarring and sickening experience for his students as well as AlMaghrib Institute’s staff and instructors who worked with him,’’ read the statement.

The Institute said it has a long-standing policy of zero tolerance for instructors having any romantic relationships with their students.

“Instructors are expected to abide by AlMaghrib Institute’s strict code of conduct in both their public and private lives,’’ the statement read.

“As soon as AlMaghrib Institute was notified of a possible violation of its code of conduct by an instructor in his personal life, AlMaghrib Institute conducted its own investigation but did not have access to law enforcement’s investigation.”

Sharieff was immediately fired.

The investigation began in October when a woman identifying herself as Sharieff’s wife called the Alabama Department of Human Resources to report seeing videos on her husband’s phone of a young girl watching adult pornography.

In the video, she said, the child’s mother was explaining the sexual acts they were watching.

The wife said she recognized the child and the woman because she had met them both at a conference in Atlanta.

The caller also told DHR that there were messages on her husband’s phone directing Barakat to produce additional sexual videos of the girl for him.

On Oct. 15, Shelby County Sheriff’s Office investigators made contact with Bakarat.

Salvador wrote in the federal complaint that Bakarat, who also goes by the name Hamna, spoke at length with investigators about her religion and said Sharieff was her teacher in an online Quran school.

Documents go into great detail about the sex acts performed by the child and said Bakarat would film the activities and send them to Sharieff. The two communicated through the Telegram messaging app.

She said she sent the videos to Sharieff to let him know how far they were progressing on their quest to become closer to Allah.

Some of the messages from Sharieff to Bakarat included:

“You are special and safe with me and our family time is a secret.”

“You’ve been lied to by men for so long it’s impossible to believe someone truthful.”

“When can papa work on Quran with (the juvenile victim”

Investigators, according to federal investigators, seized multiple electronic devices and sex toys from Bakarat’s residence.

Barakat was arrested last month on three counts of sex abuse of a child under the age of 12, 10 counts of production of child pornography and 10 counts of dissemination of child pornography.

She remains in the Shelby County Jail. A court date has not yet been set.

Sharieff remains in federal custody and is being housed at the Talladega County Jail.