[1] Danial Al Rashid was born as the second son to popular actor and comedian Harun Salim who appeared in many dramas on local television as father and his first wife Martinah Ahmad as mother in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 11 September 1986.
He has also decided to pursue a Master's degree at the University of Selangor (UNISEL) in Special Education after his 3 years of community-related tasks in his tenure as the Head of ANIS.
In education, Danial Al Rashid has been an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Taylor University since 2022 and an External Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Elections and the Advancement of Democracy (ISEAD) at UNISEL.
Danial Al Rashid won the seat and was elected to the Selangor State Legislative Assembly as the Batu Tiga MLA for the first term after defeating former Minister of Women, Family and Community Development Rina Harun of Perikatan Nasional (PN) and Syaidiyah Izzati Nur Razak Maideen @ Cheda Razak of the Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (MUDA) by a majority of 3,382 votes.
He also aimed to take women to the greater attention by strengthening their social involvement through Selangor state government programmes and emphasised the need to bring young people into development process.
On the gig economy, he also stressed that training and empowerment of the independent workers and freelancers with new skills to find better employment opportunities and transform the local labour market.