Guidelines for Making Use of the Summer Vacation

Question:
It is correct to be dutiful and kind to one's parents. Yes. We are on the threshold of the summer vacation, so what is the ruling on guidance? What guidance do you give us for utilizing our time in a way that brings benefit and victory? And what guidance do you give to parents regarding our children?

Answer:
There is no doubt that the summer vacation is an opportunity for one who wants good and an opportunity for one who wants evil. So you must occupy this time with good: seeking knowledge, reading in beneficial books, and doing good in your religion and your worldly affairs. Beware of occupying it with play and amusement, for the people of the East consider such knowledge to be a source of innocence. For this vacation, they have programs for doing good, covering up, and causing ignorance. So beware of them and their deception. Occupy your vacation with what is beneficial for you in your religion and your worldly affairs.
Review your lessons to strengthen your foundation for beneficial knowledge in the future. As for the one who is heedless and plays, he erases the knowledge he learned throughout the year; he erases it and becomes heedless of it, by nature. But the one who continues to seek knowledge, his knowledge increases and grows through seeking knowledge and reviewing it.