Tag: Muslim converts

• Why Thugs Can’t Raise a Nation; The Importance of Good Parenting

  Make it your mission to be a parent or a step parent, in the true sense. Relish in it, meet it head on, accept it, value it, immerse yourself in it, work it, embrace it, grab it by the horns, greet it with enthusiasm, cherish it, be about it, face it, love it, handle it,…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  November 14, 2012

  American Muslim identity, Parenting, thug life

  African American Muslims, Black American Muslims, black on black crime in america, converts, drug abuse, drug abuse amongst african americans, drug use amongst black americans, Islam in America, Muslim Americans, Muslim converts, parenting, Partents, Raising children, the drud problem in america, thug culture, thug life, thugs

• 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

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• 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

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• Audio Khutba: The Role of the Muslim Man According to the Quran and the Sunna by Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

  Dear brothers, as Muslim men, there are specific standards of obligation, morality, character and commitment that we are obligated to adhere to, based upon the sacred laws of the Quran, and the Sunna. These standards take precedence over all other descriptions of what it means to be a man, and every Muslim male should be…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  May 25, 2012

  American Muslims, Faith, manhood

  American Muslims, fatherhood, Manhood, Men, Muslim converts, Muslim men

• The Devil’s Deception of the Modern-Day Salafiyyah Sect, by Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

  No one committed to this religion rejects the Salaf as-Saalih or the principles on which they agreed. However, the Salafis and their modern-day da’wah do not suite the tastes of all the righteous. Too much of their methodology revolves around character assassination, claims of monopoly on Allah’s guidance, a fanatical obsession with uncovering the faults…

  Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad

  April 12, 2012

  Allah, American Muslims, Islam, Islam in America, Salafiyyism, Uncategorized

  Islam, Muslim converts, Muslims, Salafi

• 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

  American Muslim Women, American Muslims, Black Muslim History, Islam, Islam in America, muslim america, Muslim converts, Muslim Hisory, Muslim Morality, Muslim Peoples, Muslims, Signs of the Hour of Judgement, The Last Days

  African American Muslims, American Muslims, converts, Imams, Muslim, Muslim Congregation, Muslim converts, Muslim Identity, Shaykh Luqman Ahmad

• 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

• 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

  Criticism of Islam, Islam in America, Muslim converts, Uncategorized

  American Muslims, Criticism of Islam, Muslim converts, Political Islam

• 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