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As America Talks About Racism, is Muslim America Ready to Talk About It’s Own Racism? Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
Has the time finally come for Muslim Americans where they have to address Racism in their own community? As American battles its own racial problems, Muslim America has its own festering racial discord between Black American Muslims and converts, and between the larger Muslim American immigrant community. The question of Racism in Muslim America has…
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The Permissibility of Eating with Your non-Muslim Family and Relatives During All Seasons, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
In the United States, Muslims are coverts to Islam, and it is common for many Muslim converts that they have close relatives who are not Muslim. Oftentimes new Muslims are the only Muslims in their family. In the United States, it is a tradition of many families, to gather on holidays like Thanksgiving, Labor day,…
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Is it permissible for a Muslim to pray for a non-Muslim? By Shaykh Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
Even before answering the question, it is important that a Muslim believes and understands that Allah is not only the Lord of the Muslims, He is the Lord of non-Muslims as well. Therefore we must entirely dismiss any notion that Muslims somehow have a monopoly on Allah sub’haanahu wa ta’ala as a Lord. Allah is…
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Fatherhood by the Book. Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
There are very few pursuits that I enjoy as much as I do as being a father. I love the sound of my children’s voices when they say “Abu”, I love it when I put clothes on their back, when they eat my food, or when they ask me for advice. I love it when…
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Twenty-one New Brands of Islam, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
We’re getting so many new brands of Islam it’s hard to keep up. These sub-strains of the original Islam of the Prophet (SAWS) and of the early Muslims (Salaf) is what is believed to be Islam for many people in our current age. So here’s a partial list to help you stay current. So far…
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The Problem in Black Muslim America is more than men not paying bills. Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
I really believe that our problem is so much bigger than that. Out of the thousands of married Muslim that I know, and I know thousands, I’ve never come across not one Muslim man, even the newest Muslim man, who was an absolute dead beat, caring nothing for his wife or kids. Unless he was…
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Digesting Foreign Islamic Rulings aimed at Black American Muslims. Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
In the near lawless state of Black Muslim and convert America, many foreign based Islamic rulings and scholarly opinions directed at American Muslims and converts are absolutely useless and only add to our problems. Scholars in the Middle East and elsewhere in the Muslim world, despite the best intentions, are not in a position to…
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IBN HAJAR AL-ASQALAANI; SHAAFI’EE SCHOLAR, MASTER OF HADITH METHODOLOGY [1372-1449 CE], IMAM ABU LAITH LUQMAN AHMAD
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalaani is another one of those illustrious scholars of Islam that I have a great respect, love and reverence for because of his contributions to the religion of Islam and to traditional scholarship. His works convinced me to become an adherent of the Shaafi’ee school of law. Of the many explanations of Sahih…
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Sometimes We Break Our Own Men, and Don’t realize it. Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
MUSLIM MEN BECOME BROKEN IN OTHER WAYS Being a Muslim man is not as easy as people make it seem. We are not the all powerful tyrants and arrogant ogres as some of us, especially some Muslim women characterize us to be. Muslim men have obligations and responsibilities for our wives, our children, our families,…
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How Hard Core Feminism Oppresses Black Muslim Women. Imam Abu laith Luqman Ahmad
HOW HARDCORE FEMINISM OPPRESSES BLACK MUSLIM WOMEN The core of modern-day hardcore feminism is not to be subordinate to men under any circumstances, father, husband, Imam, teacher, leader, or anything. Some Muslim women just can’t find a way to reconcile that notion with the notion of family, Prophethood, or the idea that obeying one’s husband…
