 So I'm involved with a lot of youth and there's a faith Crisis amongst many of the youth many of the youth are do a chain They have two faces and the parents have no idea We see them in the musket these youth they make wudu. They pray. They look like they have khushu or they listen to the Quran They read the Quran then they go to school around the internet and they're atheist They don't even believe in God. They're actually arguing arguing against the Quran on the computer in the musket They're reading a mushaf in the chat room. They're arguing against the Quran This is very very common. Why is this happening? Why is there a faith crisis? Well, there's many reasons why? Right the youth have intellectual curiosity. I Met a brother from Afghanistan who's a Christian pastor Afghan Christian, this is a big oxymoron and I think of Afghanistan. I think of Islam Right Afghan Christian is like saying four-sided triangle doesn't make any jumbo shrimp It doesn't make any sense. All right, so why don't you become a Christian? He said well, there's you know, Christian students at my college and they were telling me certain things and I tried to rebut them I said, well, have you studied Islam? You know in detail. He said I went to Sunday school when I was a kid So your Sunday, so what about those Christian guys that were trying to convert you? He said some of them are seminarians Meaning they have you know master's degrees in divinity Their sons and daughters of priests and pastors and your Sunday school education is supposed to help you in that in that regard Right, so this is a problem with our youth our youth. They don't have Substitutive knowledge deep analytical knowledge know how to interpret certain things to put things in perspective Many of them are in what I call in this Scooby-Doo Islam Scooby-Doo Islam Islam is a bunch of gin and ghost stories. All right, that's all it is I said brother came up to me one time and said I have a very important question for you very important very private question. I said yes How do I catch a gin? But this is your very important question Yeah, I said brother. You pay for it. You pay fudger. No Okay, why don't you start with fudger and then we'll talk about gin in a few years in childhood But the same brother, you know, he talks about computer engineering like these Bill Gates Very precise very technical very articulate when it comes to some don't know I do know some worldly thing Don't do anything but when it comes to the Dean Gin story Scooby-Doo religion. All right, this type of thing. Why? Because they don't take the time to study the Dean the Dean is not a simple thing if you if you go to it's simply It's a it's a religion that everyone can grasp at some level. That's true But in this context we're not being we're being challenged Right like my parents and back home in the mother countries. There was no internet. They didn't meet atheists Right, everyone was Muslim. The questions were regarding orthopraxis. They're they're fitly issues Like, you know, how do I pray? What happens if this happened? What if I'm fasting and I vomit and these types of things These were the issues of the day in that generation Right, but nowadays the youth in this generation. It's not orthopraxis. It's orthodoxy The question is not what is Islam? Or how do I practice? Why Islam is the question now? Why is there a God? This is a question a brother asked his parents one time. Is there how do you know? There's a lot his father said him a soul for the law who make would do and pray and Allah will reveal the answer to you You can't even give him. You can't even give this kid an answer Why give some evidence? This is how he's geared. He's American. He's westernized He lives in the accident not in the orient orient. This is how he's how he's been Socialized and to thinking about a key to creed orthodoxy, why should I believe he's going online and listening to Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, right? these scholars that teach at, you know, Cambridge and Oxford that are anti-Muslim not even atheists They're anti-theist like one of them said there is no God and I hate him They're listening to these types of people talk about God talk about Islam, right? And they go to the father. He says this and this. What do I do? Go make you do Go make you do. What does that continue to do? Go make you do. Don't worry about it. Don't ask these questions Right, because that's how he was taught when he was back home, but that doesn't work. They want there's intellectual curiosity They want more substantive Substitutive answers and then we have another crisis and we'll end with this inshallah. They are out of time There are some youth who rise above this type of discourse and they and they engage in deep study And they want to be good Muslims. They have high himmah spiritual ambition and then they go to their father The sister goes to her father says I want to wear hijab and he says no, you're not allowed to wear hijab Sorry, you can't do that. There's no, but it's far dying. I want to wear hijab and the father says to her I Will answer Allah on that day I'll take it up with God on the Yomul Qiyamah. This is the answer. They came from her father Wa qala ladina kafirul ladina amanu It tabi'u sabi'ilana wal na'bin khata'iaa koom. We mentioned in Quran suratul Al Kapoot That the unbelievers they say to the believers follow our way will take your sins. Don't worry about it We'll vicariously atone for you. This Christianity. What are you talking about? I'll answer Allah You can answer Allah on the day when when everyone is terrified on that day. You're going to answer for your daughter Right, you're going to run from your daughter. Yeah, you're going to run flea flea You're going to flee from you Or you get this this brother who wanted to study it is very common This just happened his brother wanted to to study when he was in high school You want to study the Dean right? He's junior in high school So he went to his parents his parents said no you cannot study the Dean not even a little bit You have to go get your master's degree first Seven years later the brother gets his master's degree his parents call me So you remember that brother a few years ago who wanted to say yeah, he's an atheist What do we do about our son now? said well Seven years ago you told him to go get his master's degree he probably went to some university and listen to these secular professors talk about Islam and derogatory way you should have let him study a little bit back then I can't do anything for you now. I can talk to him. We talked to him. He's gone. You know he's Falas it's going to be very difficult right So we have to be balanced people We have to be balanced people. We have to think about our communities. We have to support the communities The first thing the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam did in medina after he took a census Of the city because he wanted to know who he was dealing with Is that he built a musket and the musket isn't simply a place of sajda even though that's linguistically what it means It was a community center The musket was a community center where the youth could go And they can ask questions and they can learn and this is very very important that we support these types of places Right because the youth have answers and if they don't get them here don't think they're not getting them from somewhere else They're let me say you're in one of two states. Either you're being either you're calling people towards something or you're being called to something That's it. Either you're calling people towards something or you're being called to something