Advice for the Enthusiastic Youth Who Lack Knowledge
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Question:
The questioner asks how Your Excellency views the matter and what advice you give to the enthusiastic youth who lack knowledge, who were deceived and became victims of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), harming themselves and others.
Answer:
Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) said:[An-Nisa 4:19]. He said: “Perhaps you love a thing [Al-Baqarah 2:216].” What has happened is seen by those who excuse them as containing a lesson; it is a lesson for the Muslim youth and for their guardians, because Muslim youth do not fall into these strange ideas, abandon the scholars, fail to ask the scholars, and do not sit in the lessons, to the point that they do not even pray in the mosques.
Those with these ideas have isolated themselves from Jumu'ah (the Friday prayer) and the congregation. They have become hidden, lurking in secret places. This is because Satan isolated them from the Muslim community until they fell into these ideas and obeyed the devils of jinn and humans, so that they ended up with them.
This is a lesson for us and for the guardians of the youth that they should guide their children, protect them, follow up on them, and not neglect them or leave them to do as they please and mix with whomever they please. Rather, they must be mindful of them, follow up on them, and control them, so that this terrible tragedy is not repeated. This is not asked about; it is the result of neglect, the result of neglect by fathers toward their children, and the result of the youth being deceived by the call to misguidance, their disdain for the scholars, and their disdain for the advisors. Whoever has life in his heart will be deterred by these events, and a believer is not pricked by the same thorn twice. Yes.
The questioner asks how Your Excellency views the matter and what advice you give to the enthusiastic youth who lack knowledge, who were deceived and became victims of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), harming themselves and others.
Answer:
Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) said:
perhaps you dislike a thing and Allah makes therein much good.
فَعَسَىٰ أَن تَكْرَهُوا شَيْئًا وَيَجْعَلَ اللَّهُ فِيهِ خَيْرًا كَثِيرًاwhile it is hateful to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not.
وَهُوَ كُرْهٌ لَّكُمْ وَعَسَىٰ أَن تَكْرَهُوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ وَعَسَىٰ أَن تُحِبُّوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ شَرٌّ لَّكُمْ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَThose with these ideas have isolated themselves from Jumu'ah (the Friday prayer) and the congregation. They have become hidden, lurking in secret places. This is because Satan isolated them from the Muslim community until they fell into these ideas and obeyed the devils of jinn and humans, so that they ended up with them.
This is a lesson for us and for the guardians of the youth that they should guide their children, protect them, follow up on them, and not neglect them or leave them to do as they please and mix with whomever they please. Rather, they must be mindful of them, follow up on them, and control them, so that this terrible tragedy is not repeated. This is not asked about; it is the result of neglect, the result of neglect by fathers toward their children, and the result of the youth being deceived by the call to misguidance, their disdain for the scholars, and their disdain for the advisors. Whoever has life in his heart will be deterred by these events, and a believer is not pricked by the same thorn twice. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-091-منهج الاستقامة والوسطية|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (49:14)
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