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Imam Ali Camarata

Family Khutbahs

Custody: The Defaults of the Sharia

The Sharia's clear defaults for child custody after divorce, and why fighting for children in secular courts has become our own community's oppression.

  • family

Divorce Done Right: Fiqh of Talaq

Divorce is regulated mercy, not a war. The sunnah way to end a marriage, the iddah in the home, khul', and the final talaq, with evidence.

  • family
  • tawbah

Family: Rights That Await You

The rights Allah placed on parents, spouses, and children, and how to repair broken family ties from behind these walls.

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Family: The Fortress of Society

Family is Allah's deliberate design, not a social contract. Why its collapse inside our own community is the crisis of our era.

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Fathers Matter

Fatherhood in the Quran, the father's rights and duties, and why he remains the father, the wali, and the provider long after divorce.

  • family
  • character

Marriage: Two Sets of Rights

The husband's duties and the wife's rights, then the wife's duties and the husband's rights. Marriage in Islam is not one-sided in either direction.

  • family
  • character

Mediation: Solving Disputes Our Way

Allah's own system for family disputes: Imam first, a paralegal agreement second, and the courtroom only as a last, regretted resort.

  • family
  • brotherhood

Oppression in the Home

Dhulm inside the household, the honest reading of 4:34, and why real abuse finds no cover in the Quran and no home in our community.

  • family
  • character

Parental Alienation: Severing Sacred Ties

Turning a child against a parent severs silat ar-rahim through the child's own heart. What Islam says about alienation, and how the alienated parent responds.

  • family
  • brotherhood