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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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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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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…
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Black History Month: Sister Fareda Sadek, a Pioneer American Muslim, in the Sunni Tradition
The women amongst the pioneers of the sunni tradition were the backbone of the efforts in establishing Islam in America. In 1938, Sister Fareda Sadek along with her Husband Hafez, were with the early group of 57 Muslims, who under the leadership of a Black American, Azhar trained, convert to Islam, Shaykh Professor Muhammad Ezeldeen,…
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