The Shaykh’s advice to the youth not to rush in making changes

The Shaykh: May Allah bless you. Do not rush the matter. The problem of the Muslim youth today is rushing, as came in the authentic hadith: , and from the sayings of some of the later scholars: “Whoever rushes a thing before its time is tested with its deprivation.” This is evident in the present age, starting from the fitnah of the Sacred Mosque, to the fitnah of Egypt with the group of Takfir and Emigration, to the revolution in Syria in our country, to most recently in Algeria. All of these, and these, and these, certainly are not those who fulfilled the duty of purification and education, nor are they from the people of knowledge who are able to fulfill the duty of education and purification.
Then—O our good brothers—if the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), who was supported by the revelation of the heavens, remained among his people for thirteen years teaching them the creed and some of the rulings of the Shari'ah, and then permission came to him to migrate from Makkah to al-Madinah, then between one evening and the next, a young man like you—not a Shaykh like me—a young man who read a little of the knowledge, suddenly declares that he is going to enter parliament and is going to make the apparent the hidden and the hidden the apparent, and so on. The people with him do not know of Islam except a very, very small amount. And even if they know, they have not yet been raised, because knowledge alone, as you know, does not mean anything. For the Jews, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) described them—I return to say, as you know—that they, and the pronoun refers to the Messenger , but they did not confirm the Messenger, nor did they believe in him with true belief in the thing, with the tongue and the heart. And the lack of response to the requirements of this belief does not mean that we have now obtained the two conditions: purification and education. So how do you imagine, O Abu Saleh, that this young man or another fulfilled the duty of education and purification, and based on that, he advanced or nominated himself in parliament, and then met what he met, with great regret.