The spread of cursing and insulting among Muslim youth.

Question:
The phenomenon of cursing, insulting, and invoking curses has spread among Muslim youth, and some of them even curse their parents. What is your guidance, may Allah reward you?

Answer:
Answer: This is a result of poor upbringing. It is obligatory to raise the young to guard their tongues from bad speech, cursing, and insulting. This is the first thing that is obligatory for parents in their homes, then for teachers in schools, and then for preachers and imams of mosques to warn about it, and to enjoin one another to truth and to enjoin one another to patience. These are the characteristics of the believers; this is how the believers are. They do not leave their youth to utter whatever bad speech they please, but rather they raise them with this. Ibrahim al-Nakha'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "They used to hit us—meaning the Salaf—over testimony and oaths, and we were young," in order to raise them to respect testimony and respect oaths.