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What Every Muslim Man Should Know About Being a Man, Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
A lot of sisters came out of the dunya ready to practice Islam to the fullest, but when brothers started to play games and act like little boys, things went sour. Let’s not forget that part. Too many of our men these days, especially Black Muslim men in Muslim America, are falling apart. That is…
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Why Do Fools Fall in Love and Why Do People Play Games With Marriage? Imam Luqman Ahmad
Marriage is one of the most important contracts that a person will enter into this life. It can impact much of your life, your future, and the future of your children. I keep hearing about ‘game’ between Muslim brothers and sisters when approaching and entering into marriages. I know what game is, I’m not that…
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MALIK ANBAR THE 17TH CENTURY TALE OF A BLACK SLAVE WHO MADE IT BIG.
MALIK ANBAR, THE 17TH CENTURY TALE OF A BLACK SLAVE WHO MADE IT BIG. Little is known by Muslims about the millions of East African slaves bought to India between the 10th and the 18th century who lived in and helped build and maintain Muslim dynasties in what we know to be modern-day India and…
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Muslim Pre-Marital Sex: Sampling the Goods Before Nikah, Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad.
First things first. Fornication and adultery are sinful, prohibited acts in the religion of Islam and there is no amount of triangulated reasoning that can change that fact. We live in a highly sexualized society and that is not going to change anytime soon. Marriage is the primary way that we render sex permissible. There…
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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…
