Guiding the Youth to Preserve Their Time from Sins
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Question:
Another message from Yemen, from Ahmad ibn Karim, who says: Many of the youth spend their free time in sins, so I hope you will direct a word to us that may benefit them. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
It is obligatory for Muslims in general, both the youth and the non-youth, to fear Allah and to preserve their time in what benefits them in their religion and their worldly affairs, because they will be held accountable for how they spent it and how they passed it. It has come in the hadith: So a person is responsible for his time. Allah the Exalted said: [Al-Fatihah 1:1] [Al-'Asr 103:1-3] So whoever wastes his time in play and heedlessness will lose out on the Day of Resurrection, and he will regret it and be held accountable for it. So it is obligatory for the youth and for every Muslim to preserve his time in what benefits him in the matters of his religion and his worldly affairs, and not to waste it in play and amusement; for it is his true capital, which if he preserves it, it will benefit him, and if he wastes it, it will harm him. Yes.
Another message from Yemen, from Ahmad ibn Karim, who says: Many of the youth spend their free time in sins, so I hope you will direct a word to us that may benefit them. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
It is obligatory for Muslims in general, both the youth and the non-youth, to fear Allah and to preserve their time in what benefits them in their religion and their worldly affairs, because they will be held accountable for how they spent it and how they passed it. It has come in the hadith:
The foot of a servant will not move on the Day of Resurrection until he is asked about four things: about his life, how he spent it; about his youth, how he passed it; about his wealth, from where he acquired it and in what
لا تزول قدم عبد يوم القيامه حتى يسال عن اربع عن عمره فيما افناه وعن شبابه فيما ابلاه وعن ماله من اين اكتسبه وفيماhe spent it,
أنفقه،In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ(1) By time, (2) Indeed, mankind is in loss, (3) Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds and advised each other to truth and advised each other to patience.
وَالْعَصْرِ إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَفِي خُسْرٍ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/085 — archive.org (14:32)
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