Imam Luqman Ahmad Mosque Without Borders

The companions of the Prophet came from a culture where fornication, debauchery, hoein, and getting high (drinking) was rampant. Just like ours is today. It was a way of life for many. Just like today. So the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was a match-maker. He strongly endorsed marriage, and the virtues, and benefits of…

Flattery is Free, Commitment is Costly: A Muslim Reality Check on Relationships Just because he (or she) saunders into your inbox, and showets you gratuitious flirtatious via on social media doesn’t mean he’s contemplating marriage. Flirtatious engagement with the opposite sex with no intent on marriage is just something we do to pass the time.…

All a person has to do to look pious these days, is throw on a hijab, a niqaab, a thobe, a nice fancy kufi, some pointy slippers, and boom! Piety in the house! People be like, going to the masjid? Put on the pious look. Going to the club? Put on the other look, the…

Stop thinking that your marriage has to be a Cinderella marriage like you see on television and Facebook.  not like that in real life for everyone. For some, maybe. But certainly not for many of our people. We’re talking real life here. Marriage itself is the contract, and the state of being permissible for each…

Barely a few years ago, you could hardly get a critical word in about feminism without being excoriated by Muslims. As a group, we were gung-ho pursuent to the defense and protection of our women who we increasingly saw as victims of physical, and mental abuse, denial of rights, marginalization, and neglect, at the hands…

The Islamic ruling regarding the performance of Salatul Jumu’ah (Friday prayer) on the same day as Eid prayer (Eid al-Fitr or Eidcul-Ad’haa). This doesn’t happen often, but it will happen on Friday, June 6th,  2025. Salatul Eid, and Salatul Jumu’ah will be on the same day.  When this occurs, a special ruling of the sharia…

JUST SO EVERYONE IS CLEAR There is no daleel (proof) from our scriptures (Quran and Hadith) that calling yourself Salafi, Sufi, Shafi’ee, Maliki, Hanifi, Hanbali, Thahiri, Ash’aree, Ahuls-Sunna, Ahlul-Hadith, or Ansaar-Assunna, makes you more beloved to Allah,  makes your deeds worth more to Allah,  makes you more pious, or brings you closer to jannah, or…

The Value of Islamic Religious Books and Islamic Knowledge       I confess, I love Islam, and I love Islamic books. Islam is my life, and books are my fuel. Islam is a religion deeply rooted in knowledge and learning. From the first revelation to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), which commanded,   “Read…

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ZINA Interesting, a lot of Muslim men marry women that other non-Muslim men would never marry prior to Islam. Prior to Islam, she would not have been viewed as marriage material and would have gladly given it up without a marriage contract. I guess the same can be said for women who…