Conflict Between the Timing of Summer Camps and the Scholars' Lessons
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Question:
What do you advise the honorable brothers who participate in summer camps if the time of the shaykhs' and scholars' lessons conflicts with the camp schedule? Should they attend the lessons or stay in the camps? Please provide details, as there is much discussion among the youth on this topic.
Answer:
The purpose of the camps is to refine the students and educate them. What I see is that the people in charge of the camps should coordinate the work of the camps with the lectures in the mosques. They should have the camp attendees attend the lectures, because attending lectures is part of the camp's work. Instead of bringing a lecturer to the camp?
You take them to the lecturer in the mosque, and that is better. Their attendance in the mosque, in one of the houses of Allah, and hearing the knowledge is better than their staying in the camps. So the result is that it is obligatory for the people in charge of the camps to coordinate the programs so that they allocate time in their programs for attending lectures in the mosques, and so that there is no conflict in the programs. This is among the objectives of the camps, as we mentioned. Attending lectures is among the objectives.
Likewise, it is obligatory for the leader to prevent them from things that are of no benefit or that are harmful to the students. And they should teach them the Qur'an, the Sunnah, the hadiths, and fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). In this is sufficiency and occupation of time away from other trifles. There is sufficiency in teaching them the Noble Qur'an, teaching them the Prophetic Sunnah, having them memorize the hadiths, having them memorize the Qur'an, having them memorize the words of the scholars, attending lectures and lessons. Also, teaching them the sciences they need in their worldly life, such as calligraphy, arithmetic, and useful skills, is also among the requirements.
As for the things they call recreational, in reality, it is not recommended that they be included in the programs. Yes.
What do you advise the honorable brothers who participate in summer camps if the time of the shaykhs' and scholars' lessons conflicts with the camp schedule? Should they attend the lessons or stay in the camps? Please provide details, as there is much discussion among the youth on this topic.
Answer:
The purpose of the camps is to refine the students and educate them. What I see is that the people in charge of the camps should coordinate the work of the camps with the lectures in the mosques. They should have the camp attendees attend the lectures, because attending lectures is part of the camp's work. Instead of bringing a lecturer to the camp?
You take them to the lecturer in the mosque, and that is better. Their attendance in the mosque, in one of the houses of Allah, and hearing the knowledge is better than their staying in the camps. So the result is that it is obligatory for the people in charge of the camps to coordinate the programs so that they allocate time in their programs for attending lectures in the mosques, and so that there is no conflict in the programs. This is among the objectives of the camps, as we mentioned. Attending lectures is among the objectives.
Likewise, it is obligatory for the leader to prevent them from things that are of no benefit or that are harmful to the students. And they should teach them the Qur'an, the Sunnah, the hadiths, and fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). In this is sufficiency and occupation of time away from other trifles. There is sufficiency in teaching them the Noble Qur'an, teaching them the Prophetic Sunnah, having them memorize the hadiths, having them memorize the Qur'an, having them memorize the words of the scholars, attending lectures and lessons. Also, teaching them the sciences they need in their worldly life, such as calligraphy, arithmetic, and useful skills, is also among the requirements.
As for the things they call recreational, in reality, it is not recommended that they be included in the programs. Yes.
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- أسئلة وأجوبة من دروس التوحيد - الفوزان - أسئلة وأجوبة - ٠١ — archive.org (1:26:09)
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