Category: American Holdays

• Marginalization of the Black Muslim community by the immigrant Muslims, Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  Marginalization of the Black Muslim community by the immigrant Muslims, is a part of virtually every problem facing Black American Muslims. If affects our condition more than many of us know, From the thousands of  Muslim owned liquor stores that blanket the country from coast to coast in just about every Black neighborhood in the…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  February 20, 2022

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• Are Black American Muslims Arguing Themselves Into Oblivion? By Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  We argue about the prohibited things, we argue about the permissible things, and we seem to argue most unfalteringly about the things that are in between. When we get tired of that, we find new things to make prohibited and then argue about that. We argue about fiqh, we argue about tafseer, we argue about…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  December 1, 2013

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• The Islamic Ruling Regarding Celebrating Thanksgiving Day, by Shaykh Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  Thus, it is our view that scholars, who are not intimately informed about people’s daily lives, and exchanges with their environments, cannot and should not, attempt to micro-manage people’s interactive navigations through life, as they pursue the religious ideals and values for which God holds them accountable.

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  November 20, 2013

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• The Islamic Ruling regarding Celebrating Thanksgiving Day by Shaykh Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  Contrary to some opinions, there is nothing in the Book or in the sunna of the Prophet (SAWS) that prohibits a person from being an American, living like an American, behaving like an American or engaging in American culture, as long as the lifestyle, behavior or actions do not contradict the Book of Allah, or…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  November 21, 2012

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• The Islamic Ruling Regarding Celebrating the Fourth of July Independence Day By Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

  The celebration of Independence Day is not a Christian, Jewish or Islamic celebration; it is an American celebration and anyone who is an American has a right to claim it. Celebrating Independence Day is a non-religious, national holiday and is permissible in Islam as there is no verse of Quran or authentic hadith of the…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  July 3, 2012

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