Category: Muslim Peoples

• Is Shaitaan targeting our children? By Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  

  In an ideal world, Shaitaan would wait, and leave our children alone until they had the opportunity to grow up a little, learn about their faith, and about consequences. However, Shaitaan doesn’t play fair. In fact; he’s not playing at all. He’s dead serious about the souls of our offspring. Our children are forced to…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  February 3, 2013

  Faith, Iblis, Imam Luqman Ahmad, Muslim children, Muslim kids, Muslim Morality, Muslim Peoples, Parenting

  Children, Iblis, Imam Luqman Ahmad, Islam, Muslim children, Muslims, Satan after your children, Shaitaan, Shaykh Luqman Ahmad, the devil, The devil and your children

• A guide for Muslim converts: How to give your children a strong moral foundation, by Shaykh Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  There are so many aspects of deen that children grow up and know nothing about. Whether it is family issues, moral value issues, character issues, adaab issues, belief issues, fiqh issues, social issues, or simple lifestyle issues upon which Allah and His Messenger have rendered guidance. The idea is to pass the deen down to…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  December 7, 2012

  Allah, American Muslim identity, American Muslims, Islam, Islam in America, Islamic rulings, Mulim ethics, muslim america, Muslim children, Muslim converts, Muslim kids, Muslim Morality, Muslim Peoples, Raising Children in Islam, Religion

  A guide for Muslim converts, African American Muslims, American Islam, American Muslim converts, American Muslim Identity, American Muslim Women, Black American Muslims, converts, Imam Luqman Ahmad, Muslim converts, Muslim family, Raising American Muslim children, Raising Muslim children, Raising Muslim children in America, Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

• Can Muslims Create an American Identity? By Imam Luqman Ahmad

  American Muslims have come from many diverse paths that led them to where we are today. The notion that a singular, made for the media consumption, Muslim identity can be crafted by a few American Muslim intellectuals (mostly of foreign descent), is absurd, problematic, and misleading. We are who we are; with our differences, our…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  July 11, 2012

  American Muslim identity, American Muslims, muslim america, Muslim converts, Muslim Peoples, Muslims

  American Muslim Identity, American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Black American Muslims, converts, Islam, Islam in America, Muslim Americans, Muslim converts, Muslim History

• The Tale of the Barber and the Istin’jaa Bottle, by Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

  One of the many morals of this story is to never deem any sunna of the prophet (SAWS) as insignificant. Another moral to this story is the confirmation of the verse, “and We have not sent you except as a mercy to the worlds”.[2]

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  April 10, 2012

  Allah, American Muslims, Islam in America, Muslim Peoples

  hygiene, sunna

• The Tale of The Two Muslim Americas By Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

  By all credible accounts, indigenous African-American and convert Muslims have been relegated to a second class and sometimes even third class status in modern-day Muslim America.

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  March 14, 2012

  American Muslims, Black Muslim History, Islam, Islam in America, Muslim converts, Muslim Morality, Muslim Peoples, Muslims

  American Islam, American Muslims, Muslims

• Generational Continuity and Preserving Islam in Your Family; A Case for Maintaining Muslim Congregations. By Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

  It is arguable that the biggest problem to beset African American Muslim communities by far are that most of them are not part of communities. This is a dangerous state; especially for someone new to Islam. The basis of success for a community is enjoining upon each other truth and patience. This is best done…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  February 26, 2012

  American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Black Muslim History, Islam, Islam in America, muslim america, Muslim converts, Muslim Hisory, Muslim Morality, Muslim Peoples, Muslims, Signs of the Hour of Judgement, The Last Days

  African American Muslims, American Muslims, converts, Imams, Muslim, Muslim Congregation, Muslim converts, 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

  fasting, Muslims, Ramadan, siyam

• 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