Tag: Islam in America

• A Worldwide Open Letter from Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad to the Muslim Protesters and Demonstrators Against the negative film about the Prophet Muhammad (SAWS)[1],

  The legacy and dignity of Rasoolillah lives through our actions and is carried on in following his way of good charachter, and tolerance for those who disparage him, and in bringing the light of faith and strong moral foundation to the world. The Prophet (SAWS) is under no threat of any human being; he is…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  September 17, 2012

  Criticism of Islam, Islam, Islamic rulings, islamophobia, Muslim Morality, Muslim protest, Muslim rage, Parody of Islam, Prophet Muhammad

  American Muslims, Crticism of Islam, Imam Luqman Ahmad, Islam in America, Muhammad the Prophet, Muslim leaders, Muslim protest, Prophet Muhammad, Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

• Can Muslims Create an American Identity? By Imam Luqman Ahmad

  American Muslims have come from many diverse paths that led them to where we are today. The notion that a singular, made for the media consumption, Muslim identity can be crafted by a few American Muslim intellectuals (mostly of foreign descent), is absurd, problematic, and misleading. We are who we are; with our differences, our…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  July 11, 2012

  American Muslim identity, American Muslims, muslim america, Muslim converts, Muslim Peoples, Muslims

  American Muslim Identity, American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Black American Muslims, converts, Islam, Islam in America, Muslim Americans, Muslim converts, Muslim History

• 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

  Muslim children, Muslim converts, Muslim kids, Parenting in Islam, Raising Children in Islam

  African American Muslims, American Muslims, Black American Muslims, Children, Children of Muslim converts, converts, Islam in America, Muslim children, Muslim converts, Raising Muslim children, Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

• The Islamic Ruling Regarding salaatul Kusoof (Solar, or Lunar Eclipse prayer) by Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

  There are no other weather related phenomena, or celestial events for which the Prophet (SAWS) has sanctioned a particularly styled prayer in congregation, besides an eclipse. There is no specific congregational prayer for earthquakes, tornadoes, sandstorms, rain storms, hailstorms, comets, shooting stars, solar flares, blizzards, or for any other such events besides an eclipse, hence,…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  May 19, 2012

  Allah, Astronomy, celestial occurences, Islam, Islamic Law Issues, Islamic rulings, Signs of Allah, Solar eclipse, Solar eclipse in Islam

  2012 Solar eclipse, eclipse, how to perform salatul kusuf, How tp perform salatul kusuf, Imam Luqman Ahmad, Islam in America, Islamic Law, Islamic ruling on eclipses, Islamic ruling on salatul Kusuf, kusoof, kusuf, Muslim solar eclipse prayer, ring of fire, ruling regarding eclipse, Salatul Kusoof, Salatul Kusuf, Shaykh Luqman Ahmad, Signs, Signs of Allah, solar eclipse, Solar eclipse prayer

• 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

  American Muslims, Black Muslim History, Imams, Islam in America, Islamic Law Issues, muslim america, Muslim converts, Muslim Morality, Muslims

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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

  American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Islam, Islam in America, muslim america, Shariah

  African American Muslims, American Muslim Identity, American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Islam in America, Muslim Identity, Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

• 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

  American Muslims, Islam in America, Islamic Law Issues, Muslim converts, Muslim Peoples, Uncategorized

  African American Muslims, converts, imaamate, Imams, Islam, Islam in America, Khalifa, Muslim Americans, Muslim History, Muslim leaders, Muslim Sectarianism

• 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

  American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Islam in America

  American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Islam in America, Muslim women

• 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

• 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