What is your advice for the youth?

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Question:
He says: By Allah, there is no god but Him, I love you for the sake of Allah. May Allah reward you with good, and may He increase us and you in love for the sake of Allah. What is your advice to us, O youth?

Answer:
My advice to you is to fear Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) and to preserve your youth and strength by obeying Allah and abandoning His disobedience. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'There are seven whom Allah will shade in His shade on the day on which there is no shade except His shade: a just imam, a youth who grows up worshipping Allah

صلى الله عليه وسلم سبعة يظلهم الله في ظله يوم لا ظل إلا ظله وذكر منهم شابا نشأ في طاعة الله

Muwatta Malik 51:14

Allah the Exalted and Majestic said:

Indeed, they were youths who believed in their Lord, and We increased them in guidance. ⁽¹⁴⁾ And We made firm their hearts when

إِنَّهُمْ فِتْيَةٌ آمَنُوا بِرَبِّهِمْ وَزِدْنَاهُمْ هُدًى وَرَبَطْنَا عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ إِذْ

[Al-Kahf 18:13-14]

They said when

when they stood up and said, "Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Never will we invoke besides Him any deity. We would have certainly spoken, then, an excessive transgression. ⁽¹⁵⁾ These

قَامُوا فَقَالُوا رَبُّنَا رَبُّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ لَن نَّدْعُوَ مِن دُونِهِ إِلَٰهًا لَّقَدْ قُلْنَا إِذًا شَطَطًا هَٰؤُلَاءِ

[Al-Kahf 18:14-15]

these were young men who opposed their people; when their people were upon shirk (associating partners with Allah), they opposed them and affirmed the oneness of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and Allah praised them.

and We increased them in guidance.

وَزِدْنَاهُمْ هُدًى

[Al-Kahf 18:13]

. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to address the youth specifically with advice. He said, "O young man, I am teaching you some words," and he said this to Ibn 'Abbas, who was a young boy at the time.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما نصيحتكم للشباب؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com

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