Tag: American Muslims

• Generational Continuity and Preserving Islam in Your Family; A Case for Maintaining Muslim Congregations. By Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

  It is arguable that the biggest problem to beset African American Muslim communities by far are that most of them are not part of communities. This is a dangerous state; especially for someone new to Islam. The basis of success for a community is enjoining upon each other truth and patience. This is best done…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  February 26, 2012

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• African American Muslims; Making Hard Choices That Will Change Our Condition

  There is nothing we can do to change the past beloveds, but we have an opportunity before us for a better future. However, it requires that we submit wholeheartedly to the moral and liturgical principles of Islam. Changing the condition begins with the self. If there was ever a place to begin then I suggest…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  February 2, 2012

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• Defining the American Muslim Identity

  Muslims, American or otherwise should define themselves first and foremost, in moral, or religious terms. It is nonsensical for American Muslims to attempt to formulate a singular domestic identity for American Muslims while taking Allah out of the equation

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  November 15, 2011

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• The Decline of Indigenous American Muslim Communities Part 3: Undervaluing the Muslim Woman

  Thus we find that we deny ourselves one of our most valuable resources (our women and their skills ) while granting it to others. ..

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  December 25, 2010

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• 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

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• 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

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• Don’t Blame the Media; Muslims Play With their Own Emotions!

  True, much of the media coverage about Muslims is selective and focuses on Muslim rage, and killing. However, if Muslim rage, and killing were not so prevalent, the media would not have such an abundance of it to cover.

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  June 18, 2010

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• Inviting to lslam using Wisdom and Good Rhetoric

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  May 11, 2010

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• A Muslim Response to Criticism and Parody of Islam

  When the Prophet (SAWS) was negotiating the famed treaty of Hudaibiyyah, the Meccan delegate Suhail ibn Amr did not accept the Prophet’s title (Muhammad Messenger of Allah) to be written on the contract and only agreed to the Prophet’s name; Muhammad ibn Abdullah, on the document. Suhail justified the slight by saying; “If we actually…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  April 28, 2010

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• 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

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