What is your advice to the youth regarding how to spend the summer vacation?
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The questioner : May Allah preserve you, O honorable Shaykh. As you know, we are approaching the summer vacation. What is your advice to us regarding what we should do during this vacation? May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : My advice to the brothers regarding work during this vacation is as follows: As for the youth, my advice to them is to join the summer centers if they exist, provided that those in charge of them are people of goodness and virtue. Then, if that is not possible, they should join one of the scholars in their country to memorize the Qur'an for him or read to him from the hadith or from the scholarly books of Islamic jurisprudence.
As for the elders and the shaykhs, my advice to them is to increase their contact with the youth through meetings, lectures, and seminars. This is because this vacation, in reality, if it is not used for good, will be used for evil, for the idleness of the youth is destruction, as the poet said:
"Indeed, youth, idleness, and wealth—meaning affluence—*** are a corruption for a man, what a corruption"
"Al-Jaddah" means wealth. And I ask Allah the Exalted to guide everyone to what is in their good and rectitude.
The Shaykh : My advice to the brothers regarding work during this vacation is as follows: As for the youth, my advice to them is to join the summer centers if they exist, provided that those in charge of them are people of goodness and virtue. Then, if that is not possible, they should join one of the scholars in their country to memorize the Qur'an for him or read to him from the hadith or from the scholarly books of Islamic jurisprudence.
As for the elders and the shaykhs, my advice to them is to increase their contact with the youth through meetings, lectures, and seminars. This is because this vacation, in reality, if it is not used for good, will be used for evil, for the idleness of the youth is destruction, as the poet said:
"Indeed, youth, idleness, and wealth—meaning affluence—*** are a corruption for a man, what a corruption"
"Al-Jaddah" means wealth. And I ask Allah the Exalted to guide everyone to what is in their good and rectitude.