Category: Islam
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ARE WE COMMITTED TO SUCCESS? OR COMMITTED TO FAILURE? By Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
Where are we going wrong here? It seems like some of us are absolutely committed to self-hate, to jelousy, to ignorance, to championing every cause but our own, to unlawful relationships, to tearing down our leaders, to divorce as the go to option in marraiage, to gender war between the sexes, to making up new…
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CHASING ASS AND RUNNING GAME? Y’ALL GOT US TWISTED.. by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
It is very difficult for an outsider to understand the challenges and dynamics of Black American Muslim manhood, marriages, and family issues in inner-city America and more specifically, Muslim America, unless you come from the places that we come from. The breakdown and failure of the Black American Muslim family and with it, our religious…
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Understanding American Muslim Frontline Imams, by Imam Luqman Ahmad.
In Muslim America , frontline Imams are first responders. We don’t get to retreat, play hooky or play hide and go seek. Many of us do not even get to retire in this life. Most of us are here for the duration, and are accessible in the Masajid, as well as online. We show up,…
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THE MUSLIM ANTI-WHITE SUPREMACY SURGE: WHO’S IN CHARGE? By Imam Luqman Ahmad
The Black American Muslim paper tiger campaign against white supremacy seems to have no Islamic ideological anchor. Our unbridled undisciplined hatred for a loosely defined “white supremacy” is such that it only took moments for us to condemn an 18 year old black man who forgave his brothers killer. Interestingly enough, the people whom we…
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Racial Double Standard Politics In Muslim America, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
The American Muslim immigrant community should not be silent about this yet another murder of a Black American man, in this case George Floyd at the hands of the police. If American Muslim immigrants want to really champion working against racism and white supremacy then such eaders need to not only condemn this incident in…
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A SPECIAL NOTE TO OUR INDIGENOUS AMERICAN MUSLIM SISTERS, FROM IMAM LUQMAN AHMAD
I have seen, heard from and spoken to many extremely smart and intelligent Muslim women who still believe and champion the Book, the Sunna, the beliefs of Islam, and what was revealed to the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم. Some of you have expressed frustration and a sense of helplessness because so much is…
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THE ZANJI SLAVE REBELLION AGAINST THE ABBASID CALIPHATE, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
The brutality of this rebellion was so fierce on both sides that during the day, people used to hide in their homes, hide in wells, and in sewers, and only come out at night to hunt rats, dogs and cats and even resorting to eating the flesh of human corpses in order to survive. The…
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Spectator Islam: How to Go From Watching to Doing, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
A Day at the Colosseum Make up your mind, you can’t have it both ways, You can’t demand that Black imams deal with all of the trauma, anguish, mental and emotional issues of Black American Muslims, as we do thumbs up or thumbs down in the bleacher section while we hardly even pay our Imams…
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It’s Raining Cats and Women! By Imam Luqman Ahmad
SO MANY WOMEN. There sure are a lot of unmarred sisters out there. I mean like, everywhere. I’m getting hit on all the time now. I’m a poor rough looking dude right now who does not bathe or groom as often as I normally would, who doesn’t wear socks, has ashy feet, wipes his hands…
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The Burden of the Black American Muslim Man. By Shaykh Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
BY ALLAH’s WILL, WE ARE NEVER, EVER, EVER GOING TO GIVE UP. – BLACK AMERICAN MUSLIM MEN It is very difficult for an outsider to understand the dynamics of Black American Muslim marriages in inner-city America unless you come from the places that we come from. The breakdown and failure of the Black American Muslim…
Imam Luqman Ahmad Mosque Without Borders 