Category: American Muslims

• Qualities to Look For in a Muslim Husband by Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

  If a woman seeks a husband who does not have the qualities of a good man, then she will get a joker. The first thing to check about a potential spouse is his salat, and if you check his, make sure that you check yours too.

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  January 25, 2012

  American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Imams, Islam, Islam in America, Islamic Law Issues, Marriage, Muslim converts, Muslim Morality, Muslim Women, Ramadan

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• Defining the American Muslim Identity

  Muslims, American or otherwise should define themselves first and foremost, in moral, or religious terms. It is nonsensical for American Muslims to attempt to formulate a singular domestic identity for American Muslims while taking Allah out of the equation

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  November 15, 2011

  American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Islam, Islam in America, muslim america, Shariah

  African American Muslims, American Muslim Identity, American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Islam in America, Muslim Identity, Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

• CAIR’s ‘Sharing Ramadan’ Campaign: Well intended? Maybe. Bad Idea? Definately!

  Ramadan is a pillar of faith, and should in not be prostituted as part of a public relations campaign initiated by a national political Islamic organization, to alter perceived public opinion about Islam.

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  July 16, 2011

  American Muslims, Criticism of Islam, Fasting, Islamic Law Issues, muslim america, Muslim converts, Muslim Peoples, Ramadan

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• Leaderless in Muslim America by Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

  To be leaderless in Islam is simply unthinkable. The fact that it is a condition to which many of us have grown accustomed, does not mitigate its negative consequence. ….

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  January 13, 2011

  American Muslims, Islam in America, Islamic Law Issues, Muslim converts, Muslim Peoples, Uncategorized

  African American Muslims, converts, imaamate, Imams, Islam, Islam in America, Khalifa, Muslim Americans, Muslim History, Muslim leaders, Muslim Sectarianism

• American Muslims in 2011: The Year We Start Looking in the Mirror

  The overwhelming majority of Muslim Americans are hard working, law abiding, and peaceful. human beings. I think that most Americans are aware of this despite the efforts of those who are convinced of the opposite and are hell bent upon demonizing our faith and playing upon the fears and misunderstandings many Americans have about Islam…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  January 6, 2011

  American Muslims, Criticism of Islam, Islam in America, Muslim converts, Muslim Peoples

• The Islamophobia Charade ; American Muslim Leaders Just Don’t Get It

  If we want to insist upon making islamophobia our number one obsession, then the least we can do is come up with an approach that makes sense, and is in fact, Islamic.

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  January 4, 2011

  American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Criticism of Islam, Islam in America, islamophobia, Muslim converts, Muslim Peoples

• The Decline of Indigenous American Muslim Communities Part 3: Undervaluing the Muslim Woman

  Thus we find that we deny ourselves one of our most valuable resources (our women and their skills ) while granting it to others. ..

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  December 25, 2010

  American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Islam in America

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• The Decline of Indigenous American Muslim Communities, by Imam Luqman Ahmad Part 2: Self Splintering

  Some Muslims believe that they must wait around for the caliphate to come into being that will herald in a utopian society, others believe that you need approval from a Sheikh, ten thousand miles away before you can act upon anything, and still others believe that even to consider ones self as an American is…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  December 22, 2010

  American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Black Muslim History, Fatwas, Islam in America, Muslim children, Muslim converts, Muslim Peoples

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• The Decline of American Muslim Indigenous Communities, Part 1.

  Here are the facts; 80% of American Muslim converts are African American, and African Americans are dead last in virtually every socio-economic category that measures well being; unemployment, access to health care, illiteracy, education, single parent households, broken families, incarceration rates, diabetes, hypertension, home ownership, and infant mortality, and the list goes on and on.…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  December 21, 2010

  American Muslims, Islam in America, Uncategorized

  African American Muslims, American Muslims, Islam

• How Political Islam Undermines Islam, An American Imam’s Perspective

  Political Islam on the other hand is very, very toxic. We need to realize that, because it is at the core of modern Muslim civilizational catastrophe.

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  September 27, 2010

  American Muslims, Fiqh, Islam in America, Muslim converts, Muslim Morality, Muslim Peoples, Political Islam, Politics