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Arguing Over Aqeeda in Black Muslim America, a Disaster in the Making, Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
Actually it’s more like a disaster already made. Our obsession with aqeeda inquisition and aqeeda wrangling is not something we came up with on our own. In fact, the role that aqeeda plays in our division, in our domestic dialogue, in our masjid politics, and in our priority assignment, is not organic; it is totally…
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An Introduction to the Different Types of Books of Hadith by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
There are many ways to approach hadith study. Primarily as Muslims, we want to know and understand what the Prophet ﷺ did and said so we can obey him and follow him.
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Should a Muslim follow a Particular Madhhab (school of religious law)? By Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
Should a Muslim follow a madhhab (school of law)? Does he or she have to? Does following a madhhab make practicing Islam easier? What is a madhhab anyway? The word madhhab comes from the Arabic word tha-ha-ba (ذهب)which means to go. Lexically, the word madhhab (مذهب) means a path, a position, a trend, or direction.…
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Well known Imam and scholar with 2 kids, intimidated into homelessness.
Assalaamu alaikum, I’m raising money for my family, I’m American Muslim Imam, and independent Scholar, with two children, who was bullied and intimidated into homelessness. There are 500,000 homeless people in the United States on a given night. Homelessness can happen to anyone, even our beloved Prophet (peace be upon him) was homeless for a time. The Prophet…
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The Truth About Demons, by Shaykh Luqman Ahmad
UP COMING CLASS; TACTICS AND ETTIQUETTES OF SPIRITUAL WAREFARE, ACCORDING TO THE METHODOLOGY OF THE PROPHET SAWS. This a free class, for eligible students. Read to the end to get information on eligibility and instructions on how you can register for the class. Allah, the Lord Most High does not attribute evil to Himself, and…
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Music is our poetry,
الوحيدون الذين يتحدثون عن الحب هم الوعاظ. لا أحد يهتم بالتعلم إلا المدرسين. The Temptations, an African American Rhythm and Blues group, said the above, in a 1970 song. I still remeber what we were doing when that song came out. In Arabic, it could easily be mistaken as a contextual observation of a medieval…
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THE INCOHERENCE OF BLACK AMERICAN MUSLIM PSYCHOLOGISTS
There is nowhere I know where there has been good faith, intellectually honest, and dispassionate comparative analysis of modern western psychology in light of the Muslim belief system and Muslim Moral Psychology according to our sacred texts (Quran and Sunna). That is not too much to ask. Such research has to exist, considering the number…
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The Islamic Ruling on Acknowledging, Celebrating, or wishing someone happy birthday, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
I never been too big on birthday in that I didn’t go all out. However, being away from most of my family, and getting birthday wishes from my children, grandchildren and my beloved sister especially, and going out to differ with my two small children, was a special treat. Being born is a necessity of…
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Deck the halls with boughs of fatwa, Imam Luqman Ahmad
We should have learned by now that in the zealous rush to implement moral authority, we were victimized by a plethora of premature fatwa, many of which were unqualified and harmful. Qayyim al-Jawziyya alluded to necessity of understanding people’s cultural practices, before throwing fatwas at them. He said: “This is a major foundation that every…
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Growing up Muslim in America. Imam Luqman Ahmad
I love, respect, and revere my my father, as I did and still do my mother (rahimuhaa Allah). I was blessed with good Muslim parents, and a very happy childhood growing up as a Muslim. There was nothing strange to us about being Muslim. We didn’t know anything else; we didn’t miss Christmas because we…
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Muhammad Ismail Al-Bukhari, Preserver of sacred tradition,
When we discuss a scholar of the highest caliber, such as Imam Al-Bukhari or the founders of the major schools of Fiqh, it is important to know what sort of person that scholar was. The first quality we note in Al-Bukhari was his great piety. He was a man who frequently spent hours in voluntary…
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