Imam Luqman Ahmad Mosque Without Borders

The history of Islam, Christianity and every faith community in the United States, are that people establish congregations. Council and leadership. at the head, and proceed there-forth in establishing deen. That has been the organizational model and standard for every faith group of all faith groups on the planet. The disintegration of congregation and the…

I I was the first American Imam who openly challenged in published writing, the use, potential misuse, and overuse of the neologism “Islamophobia“. Much of what I wrote more than a decade ago in the article that follows this article, has come to pass as I predicted. American Muslims have spent billions of dollars in…

Owning dogs, at least for my family, remind us of gratitude, love, loyalty, compassion, the value of rizq (sustenance), and ultimately, remind us of Allah sub’haanahu wa ta’ala.

I spent my entire adult life on the front line of Islam in America and there is no one, man, woman, or recording angel that can say different.

Do you have any idea of how it feels to American Muslim converts to know that we have to fight racism and marginalization from the very Muslims that we’ve helped pave the way for through our blood, our sacrifice, and our struggle to uphold and spread this religion?

In short, if eating with your family and friends is permissible, then having or participating in a repast is permissible, as it simply means taking food.

If the purpose of exploring, and learning about sub Saharan African scholars and their timeless and monumental contributions to Muslim history, was to give African American Muslim converts a greater appreciation of Black scholars in history, especially in light of the racist climate in some parts of the Arab and Muslim world, and to offset…