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A Dowry Should Not be Like Turning a Trick, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
A DOWRY SHOULD NOT BE LIKE TURNING A TRICK You can’t put a price on a woman. Especially a woman that you are seeking to marry. Especially a good woman. We don’t do price tag dowries in Islam. We don’t buy our wives, or sell our daughters. Our daughters and women folk are not whores,…
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Being Down According to the Sahaaba Standard, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
The companions of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم didn’t support the religion with fist pumps, likes, and pats on the back. During the time of the Prophet ص a man could not just say he was down with the cause. He was tested immediately. You down? Okay take shahaadah. You down? Okay, we finna…
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The Fatwa Fiasco in Convert Muslim America, Imam Luqman Ahmad
When Allah or His Prophet ص prohibit something, it is prohibited for sure. But when scholars prohibit things, especially things they don’t fully understand, for people with whom they are unfamiliar, it can cause unneeded chaos. Even more chaos when a scholar prohibits something he doesn’t fully understand, and without direct textual evidence to boot…
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Should a Muslim follow a Particular Madhhab (school of religious law)? By Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
Should a Muslim follow a madhhab (school of law)? Does he or she have to? Does following a madhhab make practicing Islam easier? What is a madhhab anyway? The word madhhab comes from the Arabic word tha-ha-ba (ذهب)which means to go. Lexically, the word madhhab (مذهب) means a path, a position, a trend, or direction.…
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Well known Imam and scholar with 2 kids, intimidated into homelessness.
Assalaamu alaikum, I’m raising money for my family, I’m American Muslim Imam, and independent Scholar, with two children, who was bullied and intimidated into homelessness. There are 500,000 homeless people in the United States on a given night. Homelessness can happen to anyone, even our beloved Prophet (peace be upon him) was homeless for a time. The Prophet…
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The Truth About Demons, by Shaykh Luqman Ahmad
UP COMING CLASS; TACTICS AND ETTIQUETTES OF SPIRITUAL WAREFARE, ACCORDING TO THE METHODOLOGY OF THE PROPHET SAWS. This a free class, for eligible students. Read to the end to get information on eligibility and instructions on how you can register for the class. Allah, the Lord Most High does not attribute evil to Himself, and…
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Music is our poetry,
الوحيدون الذين يتحدثون عن الحب هم الوعاظ. لا أحد يهتم بالتعلم إلا المدرسين. The Temptations, an African American Rhythm and Blues group, said the above, in a 1970 song. I still remeber what we were doing when that song came out. In Arabic, it could easily be mistaken as a contextual observation of a medieval…
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THE INCOHERENCE OF BLACK AMERICAN MUSLIM PSYCHOLOGISTS
There is nowhere I know where there has been good faith, intellectually honest, and dispassionate comparative analysis of modern western psychology in light of the Muslim belief system and Muslim Moral Psychology according to our sacred texts (Quran and Sunna). That is not too much to ask. Such research has to exist, considering the number…
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The Islamic Ruling on Acknowledging, Celebrating, or wishing someone happy birthday, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
I never been too big on birthday in that I didn’t go all out. However, being away from most of my family, and getting birthday wishes from my children, grandchildren and my beloved sister especially, and going out to differ with my two small children, was a special treat. Being born is a necessity of…
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