The Ruling on the Confusion of Youth in the Age of Currents
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Question:
Allah has sent you, Your Excellency the Shaykh, may Allah bless you and make your knowledge beneficial. We seek your permission to ask some questions from the brothers present. This questioner says: Is there a word for the sons of Muslims, especially the youth, who have been tossed about by the waves of currents in this time until they have become confused about their affair?
Answer:
Praise be to Allah. The youth are not in confusion; they are upon the truth and upon the religion. Confusion is only for the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease. As for the sincere believers, whether young or old, what is happening only increases their steadfastness upon their religion and their certainty in the promise of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, until the victory of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, comes to them. So what is happening to the Muslims, even if it involves hardship, is good for them.[Ali 'Imran 3:141] What is happening to the Muslims is a purification and cleansing, and what is happening to the disbelievers is a destruction and removal. So victory is with the Muslims.
Always and forever, whenever the Muslims and the disbelievers met in battle and the Muslims were sincere in their jihad, Allah the Mighty and Majestic granted them victory. If anything befalls them, it is due to a cause from themselves.[Ali 'Imran 3:165] What is the cause? [Ali 'Imran 3:165] [Ali 'Imran 3:166] [Ali 'Imran 3:166-167].
So Allah, Exalted and Majestic, distinguishes between the sincere in faith and the hypocrite who claims faith while he is a liar. This one goes away with the first trial and test, and the believers remain steadfast and silent, waiting for the victory of Allah. If they do not win in this battle, they will win in the next battle. What has happened to them is good for them; they prepare anew and guard against the gaps that were opened to them, through which the disbelievers gained power, so they close them and face the disbelievers anew with preparation and taking care of their affairs, and Allah, Mighty and Majestic, grants them victory. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Allah has sent you, Your Excellency the Shaykh, may Allah bless you and make your knowledge beneficial. We seek your permission to ask some questions from the brothers present. This questioner says: Is there a word for the sons of Muslims, especially the youth, who have been tossed about by the waves of currents in this time until they have become confused about their affair?
Answer:
Praise be to Allah. The youth are not in confusion; they are upon the truth and upon the religion. Confusion is only for the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease. As for the sincere believers, whether young or old, what is happening only increases their steadfastness upon their religion and their certainty in the promise of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, until the victory of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, comes to them. So what is happening to the Muslims, even if it involves hardship, is good for them.
And that Allah may purify the believers [through trials] and destroy the disbelievers.
وَلِيُمَحِّصَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَيَمْحَقَ الْكَافِرِينَAlways and forever, whenever the Muslims and the disbelievers met in battle and the Muslims were sincere in their jihad, Allah the Mighty and Majestic granted them victory. If anything befalls them, it is due to a cause from themselves.
Why [is it that] when a [single] disaster struck you [on the day of Uhud], although you had struck [the enemy in the battle of Badr] with one twice as great, you said, "From where is this?"
أَوَلَمَّا أَصَابَتْكُم مُّصِيبَةٌ قَدْ أَصَبْتُم مِّثْلَيْهَا قُلْتُمْ أَنَّىٰ هَٰذَاSay, "It is from yourselves." Indeed, Allah is over all things competent.
قُلْ هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ أَنفُسِكُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌAnd what struck you on the day the two armies met was by permission of Allah
وَمَا أَصَابَكُمْ يَوْمَ الْتَقَى الْجَمْعَانِ فَبِإِذْنِ اللَّهِthat He might make evident the [true] believers. (167) And that He might make evident those who are hypocrites.
وَلِيَعْلَمَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلِيَعْلَمَ الَّذِينَ نَافَقُواSo Allah, Exalted and Majestic, distinguishes between the sincere in faith and the hypocrite who claims faith while he is a liar. This one goes away with the first trial and test, and the believers remain steadfast and silent, waiting for the victory of Allah. If they do not win in this battle, they will win in the next battle. What has happened to them is good for them; they prepare anew and guard against the gaps that were opened to them, through which the disbelievers gained power, so they close them and face the disbelievers anew with preparation and taking care of their affairs, and Allah, Mighty and Majestic, grants them victory. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
لقاء الجمعة — af.org.sa (13:51)
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