 سلس spectacular مرحباinen مرحباionen عشان ومساعدتي أنا شيخ ألي م вас السلام عليكم شيخ ما سلام عليكم رحمة الله شيخ ما حتى يدعونا بالتعاد with the youth and the obligations towards Islam ونبقى على اتضع نفس هذه المشيخ دعونا to continue our discussion ونف puppy with youth and their creed what does the Maharaja say in terms of the importance of their creed and to promote Islam أعوذ بالله السميع العليم من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وسر الله على محمد وقالها طيبين الطاهرين رحم السلام عليكم one of the most important fact concerning the youth in their very beginning and early stage of life is the creed and the aqeeda it's so important that without having a profound belief, creed and aqeeda that youth might end up in a location or a place or a society or a community in which he will be or she will be morally or psychologically hurt and destroyed at the end of the day the one who has a strong and profound belief especially in the Islam and in the Holy Quran and the prophets is the one who can secure himself and herself in this dunya and the Akhira otherwise we can see how the enemies of Allah are trying their best to deviate specifically the Muslim nation and more specifically the youth Muslims in the world to destroy their moral values to destroy their creed and aqeeda to destroy even their links and their relation between themselves and their parents and their sisters and brothers and so forth to put a great gap between them and their elder society I mean it's seen the prominent how in today's day I've seen it myself with some youth, not all youth some youth, the way they speak to their parents I couldn't get away with it neither could you in your time and it's obvious that there is maybe times of change or they may be a hidden agenda but it's something that needs to be addressed I came across one of these youth and this person was discussing about his sister wearing a necklace with a cross on it and then let's take it to fiqh can an individual wear a piece of jewelry a ring or a cross I mean is it allowed I know Sayyed Sistani has addressed something like this Yes I mean with this regard Sayyed Sistani mentions in his Fatwa that it is not allowed if it propagates and spreads that certain belief and that of course when we see somebody is wearing a cross and this means that he's basically related to this religion Christianity for example so these are symbols in which lead to the one's notion and understanding that this person is in declining or believing in that belief of religion so we can't really use it so I had to say to Shirazi also he mentions that it's Haram so there's no way you can wear a cross and just because it's nice just to show my friends I don't mean to believe in it or to show as a beauty it's just to wear it for fun for example no that has a symbol and sign to a specific creed and religion away from Islam Sounds interesting Shirazi how do we educate our youth obviously there is a barrier in between that we discussed before with language how important is it and how do we actually tackle this issue of educating our youth you see the education of the youth begins way back and many years back when they are in their early ages of like three four the one should educate them in that time at least when you have narrations interesting that when for example the child reaches the age of let's say three you teach him if he reaches the age of for example three and a half exactly the months and years but three and a half you tell him to say and so forth so from that early age childhood age you teach him to say the Shahada the first and second Shahada the third Shahada of Imam so we teach them in that early age by the time they get to the age of youth and puberty and they have a profound and strong foundation and principle to build on for the rest of their life so it all begins from the early childhood age you educate them for example you show them practically by the word of mouth or verbally you teach them that you know I'm praying now you can stand next to me and pray although he's three years of age but they understand they can understand and comprehend that this is an act of something and then for example you sit down read Quran let's say in the month of Ramadan also they can watch and see so these are all recorded in their all these acts and they built on it their future life so if it was in a religious place they would incline and lean to the religious places if it was in a non-religious places let's say in the bars and night clubs now the billah they would incline and lean to those places now the billah so it all begins from the early ages I think it's really important because they also say children copy their elders so if the child sees the elder reading Quran praying Salah the child would often imitate it even if they don't know how to pray Salah or how to read Quran properly they'll open up a book and they'll maybe put a hat on their head they'll get out the Sajada and stand on it and perform what they do but it's quite flattering as well it's important with our youth that we start from the early age and take it from there and then take it to the marriage my next question is how do we facilitate marriage for our youth today's day and age is very very difficult for you to get married you know you wouldn't say prescribed but the recommended age and also there's so many difficulties with demands from the girls sometimes it's not the girls sometimes the demands are very high how can we facilitate marriage for the youth today well basically in the old time and the years back you know centuries ago they had no issue with the marriage it was straight forward simple you know there's a proposal for marriage they come forward that said they agree on the Mahar and that's it those two couples they go and build their own nest in the future years now things complicated due to the current situations financially, politically it's affecting we've imported some of the cultures from the east and the west sadly these are all as a consequence of not practicing and following the true teachings of Islam and the soon of the Prophet and his family as a result today that for example the Mahar the dowry is so high that even some youth would even forget about marriage and they leave it till their 30 they're very discouraged unfortunately what can we do to rectify this the first thing is to go back to the teaching of Islam that we see how the Prophet Sunnah was for example the Mahar was no more than 500 Dirhams which if you calculate in today's financial for example you'll find that it's only less than 500 pounds today some families have heard they want or they spent on the marriage over 50,000 pounds so the best thing is to follow these teachings we try to be humble especially in easing the marriage for the youths because otherwise they'll find different way and methods in order to be related to the other opposite gender which of course so the best thing is to see how and the Holy Prophet organized these marriages for themselves for their daughters and sons and for the rest of the Muslims so we would basically see less anxiety and misery with regard to the marriage issues and of course the youths especially between the 16 and 19 years of age are the most crucial time in which the need for the opposite gender rises and everywhere as we can see with the vast majority of the media coverage internet and so forth tries to attract both in gender to each other so the marriage is the best issue that we try to set committees organizations to bring those together those committees those organizations to try to speak to both parents for example to persuade them that these too young the boy and the girl they need each other so make it easier for them so they can get married easily and live their life now I guess it needs a bit of a culture change maybe that because the culture that we have today is also the way it's done maybe there needs to be some form of change and you know there's a lot of benefits of being married and also one thing is that it takes up a lot of your time and if you're not married then you have a lot of free time what can be done in regards to that so if the youth today I mean they go to school college university and then the weekends most of them are free in evenings what can be done with the youth how should they fill up their free time the best thing to start with I think the parents can start at home by teaching their kids their children now by talking to them bringing some books to to add it to the library of the home and encourage them to read because these are the schools encourage the kids read school books which are you know for example the bear and the rabbit for example the stories of the kids that they have we have to also add to the library our own libraries the stories of أهلبيت عليم السلام the 14 fallibles you have them in Arabic and English all languages almost you can buy them the internet for example you can even download them now PDF it's interesting with cartonic drawings so they can understand this culture the way in which أهلبيت عليم السلام lived so it's important that we start from home and as well we can take them to the Islamic centers they learned from the Majalis for example there are sessions for the youth in some Majalis for the kids as well so we try to accommodate and try to encourage them and create an environment in which the youth and the kids can enjoy and understand so a bit of play and games and a bit of teaching and so forth so we try to balance these issues and encourage our kids and the youth as well to understand that this belief is the correct and the true belief of Allah and if you stay away from this عقيد or belief then who knows what is the future coming afterwards جخلط how can we deal with the youth and their problems that they face I mean sometimes they feel ostracized or they feel that they can't really they don't have someone to go to or trust or someone they can relate to in regards to what they are going through so I mean how can we help with their problems that they are facing with regard to the problems basically we have to try our best to solve them by ourselves if I as a parent can solve it then I sit down with them and try to solve it be it a social problem be it a financial problem be it a personal problem any kind of problems we try to solve it ourselves if not then friends relatives family whoever can get involved and solve it because the most important thing that we try to avoid the problems getting bigger and bigger and we don't open the door towards other organizations and in which they have to go there let's especially in non-Muslim organizations for example to seek advice and help so we don't reach that level of letting them to go and especially the courts for example in which they have to face the consequences no we try to solve it even if they are in a state of corruption drugs and so forth we try to solve it we try to make them to stop using these materials and stay away from these issues so we try to put the efforts ourselves initially and if not the community leader the Islamic center and so forth the Mawlana or the Imam who is in charge to try to solve these problems because we don't lose our kids and to be in the hands of others that's very important because they will be educated in the hands of others in a different culture and that's the fear and danger thank you very much and thank you to all our views for joining us on this episode of if you have a question that you'd like to ask the sheikh you can email us on at www.imahmoussein.tv the address will be at the bottom there you can email your questions and in the next show السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته