Tag: Islam

• 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

• 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