Nasharudin's election to the position was a surprise as the senior cleric Haron Din had been slated to run against the incumbent, Hassan Shukri, but withdrew due to illness.
[8][9] After travelling to Gaza in 2013 with UMNO's former president and Malaysia's former Prime Minister, Najib Razak, he was expelled from PAS's governing Syura Council on 14 January 2013.
Having left both PAS's leadership and the Parliament in 2013, Nasharudin became chairman of the Nassar Foundation, a non-government organisation concerned with Islamic matters.
From this position he spoke out against the use of the word "Allah" by Christians to describe God,[12] and led protests against what he perceived as the lack of support from the Egyptian military government for people in Gaza.
[15] He was appointed the CEO in 2015 after he assisted Najib Razak to forge political alliances with PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang after the 2013 general election, replacing Saifuddin Abdullah who has left GMM and UMNO.
[16][17] Under his leadership, the organisation became irrelevant as extremism flourished and the foundation has been alleged to be failed and a wastage of public funds as it had contradicted its official policy of moderation.
[18] After the 2018 general election that saw the downfall of Najib Razak's Barisan Nasional (BN) government, Nasharudin announced the abolishment and disbandment of GMM on 30 July 2018.