What is the advice for youth and students regarding society?
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Question:
What are your directives for those in charge of the summer center of this institute? And what is your advice for the youth participating in it?
Answer:
My directives to my brothers and sons, and my advice to them, is that they be keen to understand the truth without showing off, without aggression toward anyone, and without arrogance. Rather, each one should be keen to understand what Allah and His Messenger said, to teach his brothers and guide them, to advise them, and to cooperate in righteousness and piety. They should be humble among themselves, with no arrogance of some over others, not because of age, or because one is more understanding, or because one is in the university and the other is not, or because one is in high school and the other is not, but rather in middle school. No, they should have humility, cooperation in good, and love for whatever benefits their brothers. They should have so much of this that it makes them one entity, loving each other for the sake of Allah, cooperating in righteousness and piety, and advising one another. If one sees in his companion something that contradicts the Shari'ah, he should advise him in a good manner and with kind words, so that he may return to the right path, without harshness, without publicizing his fault, and without backbiting about him in gatherings. This is how brothers should be.
So my advice to everyone and my directive to everyone is to fear Allah, to cooperate in good with all their ability, and to make their goal the reform of their affairs and the improvement of their conditions. They should learn knowledge, gain understanding in the religion, and cooperate in good. They should beware of making it their goal to slander one another, to backbite one another, and to publicize one another's slips. Likewise, one must beware of what was mentioned before: arrogance, pride, and looking down on others.
My advice to them is also to be humble with the teachers and to ask them about whatever is difficult for them with all proper conduct. This is what a student of knowledge should do, along with hastening to what Allah has made obligatory: prayer in congregation, dutifulness to parents, maintaining family ties, showing compassion to the poor, the needy, and the neighbor, offering the greeting of peace, returning the greeting, sneezing and saying "may Allah have mercy on you" to the sneezer, visiting the sick, and following funeral processions, among other noble morals. They should not tire or weaken. This is how the scholars are, and this is how the students of knowledge are.
What are your directives for those in charge of the summer center of this institute? And what is your advice for the youth participating in it?
Answer:
My directives to my brothers and sons, and my advice to them, is that they be keen to understand the truth without showing off, without aggression toward anyone, and without arrogance. Rather, each one should be keen to understand what Allah and His Messenger said, to teach his brothers and guide them, to advise them, and to cooperate in righteousness and piety. They should be humble among themselves, with no arrogance of some over others, not because of age, or because one is more understanding, or because one is in the university and the other is not, or because one is in high school and the other is not, but rather in middle school. No, they should have humility, cooperation in good, and love for whatever benefits their brothers. They should have so much of this that it makes them one entity, loving each other for the sake of Allah, cooperating in righteousness and piety, and advising one another. If one sees in his companion something that contradicts the Shari'ah, he should advise him in a good manner and with kind words, so that he may return to the right path, without harshness, without publicizing his fault, and without backbiting about him in gatherings. This is how brothers should be.
So my advice to everyone and my directive to everyone is to fear Allah, to cooperate in good with all their ability, and to make their goal the reform of their affairs and the improvement of their conditions. They should learn knowledge, gain understanding in the religion, and cooperate in good. They should beware of making it their goal to slander one another, to backbite one another, and to publicize one another's slips. Likewise, one must beware of what was mentioned before: arrogance, pride, and looking down on others.
My advice to them is also to be humble with the teachers and to ask them about whatever is difficult for them with all proper conduct. This is what a student of knowledge should do, along with hastening to what Allah has made obligatory: prayer in congregation, dutifulness to parents, maintaining family ties, showing compassion to the poor, the needy, and the neighbor, offering the greeting of peace, returning the greeting, sneezing and saying "may Allah have mercy on you" to the sneezer, visiting the sick, and following funeral processions, among other noble morals. They should not tire or weaken. This is how the scholars are, and this is how the students of knowledge are.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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