Tag: African American Muslims

• The Decline of Indigenous American Muslim Communities, by Imam Luqman Ahmad Part 2: Self Splintering

  Some Muslims believe that they must wait around for the caliphate to come into being that will herald in a utopian society, others believe that you need approval from a Sheikh, ten thousand miles away before you can act upon anything, and still others believe that even to consider ones self as an American is…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  December 22, 2010

  American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Black Muslim History, Fatwas, Islam in America, Muslim children, Muslim converts, Muslim Peoples

  African American Muslims, American Muslims, Black American Muslims, converts, Fatwas, Islam in America, Muslim converts, Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

• The Decline of American Muslim Indigenous Communities, Part 1.

  Here are the facts; 80% of American Muslim converts are African American, and African Americans are dead last in virtually every socio-economic category that measures well being; unemployment, access to health care, illiteracy, education, single parent households, broken families, incarceration rates, diabetes, hypertension, home ownership, and infant mortality, and the list goes on and on.…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  December 21, 2010

  American Muslims, Islam in America, Uncategorized

  African American Muslims, American Muslims, Islam

• An American Muslim Imam’s Response to Imam Anwar Awlaki’s call for Jihad Against America

  Many Muslim Imams and scholars have branded our country as evil, even calling her the ‘Great Satan’. I say that the Lord that we worship favors not the east or the west; He favors the righteous wherever they dwell. “Say: To Allah belong both East and West: He guideth whom He will to a Way…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  April 14, 2010

  Islam in America, Islamic Law Issues, Jihad, Muslim converts, Muslim Hisory, Muslim Peoples

  African American Muslims, Anwar Awlaki, Islam in America, Jihad, Jihad against America, Muslim History, Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

• Civil Marriages Versus Islamic Marriages

  Civil and Islamic marriages have taken on connotations of real and make believe. A person will say: “lslamically I’m married to so and so but legally I’m still married to so and so.” Or they will say, “We are married in Islam but we are not legally married.”

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  March 23, 2010

  Fiqh, Islam in America, Islamic Law Issues, Marriage, Muslim converts, Muslim Peoples, Shariah

  African American Muslims, American Muslims, Islam, Islam in America, Marraige, Muslim Americans, Muslim Marriage

• Tabaqaat al-Amrikiyyeen: Recording History for American Muslim Generations, by Shaykh Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  Within the history of American Muslim community there are classes of individuals who have served Islam in a range of religious disciplines; there are imams, scholars, teachers, leaders, khateebs (preachers) and du’aat (missionaries) of Islam.

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  March 17, 2010

  American Muslims, Islam in America, Muslim Hisory

  African American Muslim History, African American Muslims, American Muslims, Black American Muslims, Islam in America, Muslim converts, Muslim History, Tabaqaat al-Amrikiyyeen

• The Islamic Ruling on Baby Showers in the United States

  The reality is that there is no evidence in the Quran or the Sunna or in the words or actions of the Salaf of our umma which would conclusively or even remotely render baby showers haram or even makrooh. The practice of baby showers is that it contains many Sunna acts

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  March 15, 2010

  Fiqh, Islam in America, Islamic Law Issues, Muslim converts

  African American Muslims, Aqeeqa, Baby Showers, Fatwas, Islam in America, Islamic Law, Muslim converts, Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

• Fatwas and the Responsibility of Muslim Scholars in America, by Shaykh Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  The average Muslim, especially the convert, who simply wants to worship his or her Lord, and live an Islamic lifestyle, is often left in an almost perpetual state of confusion. Scholars, as they learn more about American society alternately prohibit things in one instance and then make them permissible according to their own evolutionary knowledge…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  March 7, 2010

  Fiqh, Islam in America, Islamic Law Issues, Shariah

  African American Muslims, American Muslims, Fatwas, Islam, Islam in America, Islamic Law, Muslims, Shariah

• Seven out of every ten converts, leave Islam, by Imam Luqman Ahmad

  Most Muslim converts in America these days are a one shot deal. They convert to Islam but it doesn’t really spread to the next generation. The average convert today is simply subject to too many fluctuations, and quirky influences in his or her faith and ideology in the name of Islam to keep up.

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  January 13, 2010

  American Muslim identity, converts to Islam, Criticism of Islam, Faith, Imam Luqman Ahmad

  African American Muslims, convert issues, converts, converts to Islam, Islam, Islam in America, Muslim, Muslim converts, Political Islam