Category: Islam
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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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Belief is Hard; It Means You Gotta Do Stuff. By Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
I guess the prevailing logic is, why seek knowledge when you got Google, and why do anything when you can simply like it on Facebook, and why commit when you can simply look committed on social media? Why actually believe? As long as you look like you believe, your good. Belief is hard anyway, it…
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OATHS, VOWS, CONTRACTS AND COVENANTS IN MUSLIM AMERICA, Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
The whole idea of vows (nuthoor/نذور), covenant (meethaaq/ميثاق), contract (ahd or aqd/عهد او عقد) and fealty (bay’ah/بيعة) has been nearly forgotten and lost amongst us. Even though verbal pledges, oaths, contracts, are a integral part of the Islamic system of accountability, justice, and order. The Prophet SAWS used to require that people pledge (bay’ah) when…
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The Dangers of Making things Haraam, Without Having Clear Evidence, by Shaykh Luqman Ahmad
There is enough prohibited activity in people’s lives today to keep us busy for the rest of the century. There is no need to go about searching for new things to declare haraam. The Dangers of Making things Haraam, Without Having Clear Evidence, by Shaykh Luqman Ahmad
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How the Shaitaan Robs Black American Muslim women of their rights, Imam Luqman Ahmad
How shaitaan robs Black American Muslim woman of their rights. No one has the right to tell a wife or a husband, what they can or cannot be allowed tolerate in THEIR marriage. Shaitaan is really trying to make fun of Muslims. He’s such a joker, but he’s serious. Satan tells his people that they…
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Have Black American Muslims Lost Their Way? Or Have They Simply Lost Their Will to Survive? Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
So you have Christians talking loud about fatherhood, traditional family, sense of purpose, order, direction in life. While you got Muslims dismissing family, celebrating divorce, talking about the joy of being single and why we need to respect everybody’s views. Church going Christians quote verses from the Bible upholding a wife’s obedience to her husband,…
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Muslim Americans and America’s History of Rebellion Luqman Ahmad imamluqman@masjidibrahim.com January 13, 2016 “I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical”. – Thomas Jefferson Many American Muslims are concerned about what is viewed as a rising tide…
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