Advice for Youth on Holding Firm to the Religion
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Question:
This question, Honorable Shaykh, says: Are young people today being pulled between excess and imitation? So, Your Excellency, how do you advise them to proceed on the path of the righteous Salaf, avoiding falling into deviant speech?
Answer:
Yes. These young people are a trust in our hands, and we are responsible for them. Guiding them and protecting them from misguided ideas and deviant opinions. They are a trust that Allah has placed upon us.
And that is by our striving to teach the correct creed, with its chapters and issues, so that they know how to believe, and by teaching them fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), so that they know how to manage their affairs and how to judge between people. We also teach them history so that they know the events that have passed and take lessons from them, and know that the calamities and punishments that occurred in history were caused by the division in this religion, and that the victories and glory mentioned in history were due to holding firm to this religion, learning it, teaching it, spreading it among people, and judging by it, and[Al-Ma'idah 5:49]. This is the obligation upon all of us. Yes.
This question, Honorable Shaykh, says: Are young people today being pulled between excess and imitation? So, Your Excellency, how do you advise them to proceed on the path of the righteous Salaf, avoiding falling into deviant speech?
Answer:
Yes. These young people are a trust in our hands, and we are responsible for them. Guiding them and protecting them from misguided ideas and deviant opinions. They are a trust that Allah has placed upon us.
And that is by our striving to teach the correct creed, with its chapters and issues, so that they know how to believe, and by teaching them fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), so that they know how to manage their affairs and how to judge between people. We also teach them history so that they know the events that have passed and take lessons from them, and know that the calamities and punishments that occurred in history were caused by the division in this religion, and that the victories and glory mentioned in history were due to holding firm to this religion, learning it, teaching it, spreading it among people, and judging by it, and
judge, [O Muhammad], between them by what Allah has revealed and do not follow their inclinations and beware of them, lest they tempt you away from some of what Allah has revealed to you
احْكُم بَيْنَهُم بِمَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ أَهْوَاءَهُمْ وَاحْذَرْهُمْ أَن يَفْتِنُوكَ عَن بَعْضِ مَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-015-الأمن في القرآن الكريم|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (25:05)
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