Shaikh Muzzammil Dadabhoy is the inaugural Director of Muslim Life and Campus Imam at the University of Southern California.

In this role, he provides pastoral care, spiritual counseling, and religious education for the university community, and oversees programs, events, and other opportunities focused on Muslim Life. In his free time, he also volunteers as Muslim Chaplain at Cal State University, Long Beach through the university chaplaincy program at the Institute of Knowledge.

Born and raised in Southern California, he has lived and studied in South Africa, Pakistan, and Makkah Al-Mukarramah for two decades. Shaikh Muzzammil earned his undergraduate law degree in Judiciary Studies from Umm al-Qura University in Makkah where he also completed a diploma in Arabic and Islamic Studies. Additionally, he earned his LL.M. degree in Alternative Dispute Resolution from the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California.

He currently resides in Huntington Beach with his parents, wife, and children, and remains passionate about Islamic education, law, counseling, and practice & spirituality. And while he’s been known for his mean crossover in times past, he is more often recognized these days for dimes dropped and lockdown-D . . . with chocolate-chip cookie crumbs in his beard.

Imam Obair Katchi was born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Southern California. He was blessed with the opportunity to memorize the Quran and complete the Tajweed Qiraat program at a very young age for which he has been awarded internationally including first place at the Dubai International Quran Competition.

After completing the memorization of the Quran. he pursued a formal ‘Alamiyyah degree (Masters in Arabic and theology and Islamic Studies) at the Islamic University of Toronto. (Jamiatul Uloom Al-Islamiyyah) Imam Obair currently serves as the lead instructor of the Hifzul- Quran memorization program as well as the Imam at the Islamic Society of Corona-Norco. He has recently completed a degree in behavioral sciences and serves as a Marriage counselor for his community at ISCN. He is currently continuing his education to also become an addiction counselor.

On the side, he runs his clothing business (Barakah Clothing) and is a realtor based out of Corona. He is also a religious advisor for Aqra Travel Group and takes families to Umrah and Hajj. Shaykh Obair enjoys playing basketball, boxing, traveling and match-making for people in the community.

Shaykh Suhail Mulla is the Director of the Los Angeles branch of the Khalil Center – a community spiritual and psychological wellness center. Shaykh Suhail currently serves as Resident Scholar at Islamic Society of the West Valley in Canoga Park, CA. He also serves as the IOK Muslim Chaplain at California State University, Northridge (CSUN).  Additionally, he is the co-founder of the Muslim Marriage Rejuvenation Retreat (signsofthedivine.com).

Shaykh Suhail has worked as a social worker in LAUSD and Sylmar Juvenile Court, has served as an Imam at the Islamic Society of Orange County, as a Muslim Chaplain at UCLA and as Interim Executive Director and Director of Mental Health at Access California Services.

Shaykh Suhail earned his Bachelor’s Degree in African-American Studies from CSUN, his Master’s in Social Welfare from UCLA and another Bachelor’s Degree in Shari’ah (Islamic Law) from the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. He also completed a two year Islamic Studies program at Al-Asheera Al-Muhammadiya in Cairo, Egypt where he studied privately with numerous Azhari scholars.

Shaykh Suhail resides in Los Angeles with his wife and four children. He is a student of the outdoors and enjoys hiking, camping, backpacking, woodworking and gardening in his free time.

From 2004-2016, Ustadh Tabari passionately worked within the federal prison system helping to promote a variety of educational initiatives amongst inmates. This vulnerable population needed life skills services, personal coaching, secular and spiritual curriculums which he helped to operationalize by personally teaching while at the same time working with Chaplains and program directors. He continues similar work today counseling the formerly incarcerated population and facilitating their societal success by connecting them to the varied reentry services they desperately need. He is also a CA Registered Alcohol and Drug Technician (RADT-CA).

In 2016, Ustadh Tabari began to mentor inner-city youth in several SoCal organizations by helping them to implement their personal action plans toward solving current social justice issues. He currently teaches 2nd and 3rd generation immigrant youth instructing them via a spiritual curriculum infused with civic and social justice awareness.

In 2019, Ustadh Tabari entered a Master’s of social work program to professionalize his advocacy work amongst the justice-impacted. He intends to continue working with the Muslim and justice-impacted populations as a mental health and substance abuse professional. He currently works at the Khalil Center as a Therapist and we are honored to have him join us as a University Chaplain.