Tag: converts

• Essential Tips for Raising Muslim Children of Converts, by Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

  It is important for Muslim parents to keep in mind that it is absolutely vital that you make sure that your children have a secure foundation in their deen. Giving children a foundation in their religion usually takes the entirety of their growing up under you. It is not something achieved in one sitting, one…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  June 30, 2012

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

  Scholars of Islam are responsible for upholding the sacred trust that accompanies the acquisition of religious knowledge; which is to explain the religion clearly and concisely and not cover up any part of it.

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  May 15, 2012

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• 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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• Leaderless in Muslim America by Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

  To be leaderless in Islam is simply unthinkable. The fact that it is a condition to which many of us have grown accustomed, does not mitigate its negative consequence. ….

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  January 13, 2011

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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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• 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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• Is it a Big Deal When Prominent People Convert to Islam?

  When Umar converted, to Islam, the Muslims were inside the house of Ar’qam ibn Abi Ar’qam, they made a takbir so loud that that everybody at the Kaaba heard it. Darul Ar’qam is near Safaa, and anyone who has made hajj or umrah knows that Safaa is a little walk from the Kaaba

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  March 18, 2010

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• 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

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