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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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WHEN MUSLIM SCHOLARS, TEACHERS, AND COMMENTATORS WORK FOR IBLIS, Imam Luqman Ahmad.
The modern phenomenon of reducing Islamic marriage to a sterile, litigious courtroom checklist is one of the most intellectually and spiritually bankrupt trends in Modern Black Muslim discourse. When online commentators—often performing for engagement and islamotainment rather than imparting wisdom, build careers out of telling spouses what they do not legally have to do, they…
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Misplaced Outrage: Why We Condemn Sacred Marriages (Polygyny), While Normalizing Real Haram, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
At its core, a valid marriage is defined by its adherence to sacred conditions, making polygyny, when properly consecrated, a legitimate marriage. By its very nature, if it is not your marriage, what transpires within it is none of your business. Our collective moral psychology regarding polygyny is profoundly lopsided. In the framework of faith,…
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The Erosion of Authority: From Classical Accountability to the Age of Digital Fatwas, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad.
The shift in how legal opinions (fatwas) are issued, consumed, and acted upon strikes at the very heart of legal methodology (usul al-fiqh) and the ethics of jurisprudence (adab al-fatwa). In the classical Islamic tradition, a fatwa was never viewed as a detached, floating abstraction or a piece of generic content to be consumed at…
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The History and Politics Behind Ash’ari/Athari/Salafi Aqeedah, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
Let’s start from the beginning. Atharism (the traditionalist methodology associated with the Ahl al-Hadith) did not emerge as a later reform movement that converted an existing theological landscape; rather, it represents the earliest baseline of Sunni orthodoxy, predating the formal theological schools of speculative thought (Kalam), including Ash’arism.However, politics played a decisive, make-or-break role in…
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Holding Imams Accountable, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
If you want to hold Imam’s accountable, give them more authority. People should be accountable to the Imam before the Imam is accountable to them. Otherwise, the Imam is accountable to Allah, the same as every Muslim. The Imam is accountable to Allah to teach and preach the truth, the same as any Islamic scholar,…
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IN LIGHT OF OUR NEWFOUND LOVE AFFAIR WITH PSYCHOLOGY , CONSIDER THIS..by Imam Luqman Ahmad
It is a well-established fact that Sigmund Freud, a central figure in the development of modern Western psychology, was an atheist. Given this foundation, it should be of no surprise that certain psychological frameworks may occasionally conflict with the principles of Tawheed (the Oneness of Allah). While it would be absurd to condemn the entire…
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How Some Muslims are Stripping Away Islamic Nuance for Western Therapeutic Buzzwords, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
It’s refreshing when I see someone call out the inherent biases in modern psychological frameworks. For too long, secular therapy culture has been treated as an infallible, neutral science, when in reality, it is deeply rooted in Western individualism, secularism, and often, a subtle yet pervasive misandry. What’s even more concerning is how deeply this…
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The Rights of Muslim Children Over Their Parents: A Forgotten Area, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
The Rights of Children Over Their Parents: A Forgotten Area (a conversation that we’re afraid to have). Islamic law grants children specific rights that are often unknown or ignored in communities without fiqh literacy: • The right to be born into a valid marriage. • The right to financial support from both parents. • The…
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Understanding the Hadith of the Three Best Generations, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
One of the most foundational statements of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is his pronouncement regarding the virtue of the early eras of Islam. Recorded in authentic collections such as Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, frequently narrated by companions like Abdullah ibn Mas’ud and Imran ibn Husain, the exact wording is typically:“خير الناس قرني،…
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Recognizing Signs of the End Times in Our Modern World, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Over fourteen centuries ago, Allah and His last messenger Muhammad ibn Abdullah (ﷺ) outlined a roadmap of human history, detailing the trials, tribulations, and environmental shifts of nations that would precede the Day of Judgment (Al-Qiyamah). The Prophet ﷺ told us about these days that are upon us now. He said…
