Guiding the Youth in Current Events
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is your guidance for us, O youth, regarding the events taking place these days? We are in dire need of your guidance.
Answer:
I tell you, and I have said it before: engage in seeking knowledge and in your duties, and leave these matters alone, for they are not your concern. These are the concern of the responsible parties, the rulers. They are the ones who look into them. Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nisa 4:83].
This is a matter for the rulers and the scholars. They are the ones who look into it and rule on it. As for the general public, they have no part in these matters. What will come of it but discussion and argument, and perhaps conflict and enmity among them, with some accusing others of being wrong? Allah has not charged you with this.
Then, even if you know, what will you do? What will you do? The rulers and the scholars, if they know something, they do what is obligatory upon them and offer solutions. As for you, praise be to Allah, you are to call upon Allah. Call upon Allah for the victory of Islam and the Muslims, and against the disbelievers. Increase in supplication; that is what is required of you. Seek knowledge, leave the arguing, and leave the occupying of gatherings with these matters that are not your concern. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is your guidance for us, O youth, regarding the events taking place these days? We are in dire need of your guidance.
Answer:
I tell you, and I have said it before: engage in seeking knowledge and in your duties, and leave these matters alone, for they are not your concern. These are the concern of the responsible parties, the rulers. They are the ones who look into them. Allah the Exalted said:
And when there comes to them information about [public] security or fear, they spread it around. But if they had referred it back to the Messenger or to those of authority among them, then the ones who [can] draw correct conclusions from it would have known about it.
وَإِذَا جَاءَهُمْ أَمْرٌ مِّنَ الْأَمْنِ أَوِ الْخَوْفِ أَذَاعُوا بِهِ وَلَوْ رَدُّوهُ إِلَى الرَّسُولِ وَإِلَىٰ أُولِي الْأَمْرِ مِنْهُمْ لَعَلِمَهُ الَّذِينَ يَسْتَنبِطُونَهُ مِنْهُمْThis is a matter for the rulers and the scholars. They are the ones who look into it and rule on it. As for the general public, they have no part in these matters. What will come of it but discussion and argument, and perhaps conflict and enmity among them, with some accusing others of being wrong? Allah has not charged you with this.
Then, even if you know, what will you do? What will you do? The rulers and the scholars, if they know something, they do what is obligatory upon them and offer solutions. As for you, praise be to Allah, you are to call upon Allah. Call upon Allah for the victory of Islam and the Muslims, and against the disbelievers. Increase in supplication; that is what is required of you. Seek knowledge, leave the arguing, and leave the occupying of gatherings with these matters that are not your concern. Yes.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، باب من الشرك إرادة الإنسان بعمله الدنيا — islamhouse.com (57:18)
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