Tag: Islam in America

• 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

• 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

  Islam in America, Muslim converts, Uncategorized

  converts, Islam in America, Muslim converts, Muslim History

• 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