Rising Ummah: How Islam Empowers Youth to Change the World

YOUTH THE FUTURE OF ISLAM POWERFUL REMINDER

 In general, we find that from amongst the attacks of those people who show some hatred towards Al Islam that there are various methods to destroy al- Islam from amongst those methods from this ideological attack upon the Muslims is the destruction of the youth that if you want to kill a nation and destroy a people then corrupt their youth. Likewise, the opposite serves true as well. That is, if you want to create a nation and if you want to conquer a people. You want to progress, then work on the youth, develop the youth. We find that this system, the Sunnah AL Kawniyah, or the Sunnah of creation, has been placed inside the Quran as well, that some of the greatest people or the greatest achievements were made by the youth in particular, Asxabul Khaf, who were sleeping in the cave or the sleepers in the cave they were all young men. فتية أمنوابربهم young boys young men who believed in their lord and they stood truth to the call of Allah (SWT) and were firmly established and responded to the call of Allah (SWT) and in in the end became Victorious we find many of the companions (Radiya Allahu an hum Ajmain) being the young companions who were always at the Forefront in striving for Al Islam so we find that the youth are always a dynamic characteristic of any Umah. For any people to become successful because of the Zeal and the courage that they have is something which many people or people of different ages do not have, that when you reach a certain age in your life, you don't have that enticement to do the things that a young person would do.

 To even sacrifice their life for the sake of Al Islam or for the sake of Allah (SWT) so sometimes the elderly people are highly respected in society but there is no more that they can offer to society to change society and to help Society so the youth are very Paramount in our society and we find that a German orientalist he wrote once as well it would be a great help if we could push the Quran inside and bring the women outside meaning there a way to stop Al Islam from expanding is to push the Quran within the household keep it within the rules and Ahkam and the injunctions mentioned inside the Quran keep it within the home.

 Keep it within the Masjid don't bring the ruling system of the Quran or the ruling system of al- Islam out in the open and bring the women outside make them more liberal make them come out and work make them expose themselves and this will be a way to counteract Al Islam and this picture that he has painted is probably true that today we find more and more people especially even amongst the Muslims themselves that in their freedom of expression and belief and to live in this Society they feel that there is freedom is exposed to them and they should be allowed to be as free as they want and this is something very dangerous that we do not preserve our identity we do not preserve our belief we not preserve our Iman.

Then there will be only destruction and degradation for these people, and we find that the women are the backbone of society, as we find the famous statement behind every great man is a great woman behind the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was Khadija (RA), and after her death, Aisha (RA). Behind Musa (ALAI) were his mother and then Aasiya. Behind Isa (ALAI) was Maryam (ALAI). So we find that the majority of us, beginning with the prophets, to the majority of mankind, there's always a mother who is encouraging one to go out and learn, even if you read the Seerah of many of the Aimah like Imam Ahmed, you find that it was the mother that inspired him to go and learn. If I'm not mistaken, Imam Shafi is also mentioned, so here you find an encouragement given by the mother to go and learn. Hence, the mother is a first source of knowledge that she is well equipped in the in the fundamentals of Al Islam in the recitation of the Quran then she can teach this to the child or to the children as we find that many people they write "AL UMM HIYA AWWALUL MADRASAH the first madrasa or the first school for a child is the mother".

 That is the first teacher that the that the child is exposed to and so we find these are some of the problems that we see in our society at the moment which is clearly evident that within the of the Masjid people are very heedless of what is happening outside their society it is a sad fact to mention that gun crime drugs the selling of drugs prostitution robbery all these types of activities is heavily in has a heavy involvement of the Muslim youth in this area because many of us live maybe in an academic atmosphere we haven't walked upon the streets as Omar (RALI) would mention that "none of you can really appreciate al- Islam and until you have a lived a life of JAHILIYYAH" a life of ignorance to know what is happening in society that is a real person who understands the beauty of an Islam and sees the ignorance of ignorance and so we find that if we look outside that doorstep the amount of people involved in such crimes are Muslims and even statistically it was proven many years ago for example The Daily Mail or the Daily Express they conducted a survey to say that the most well- behaved people in this Society are the Muslims that no longer stands true the most worst behaved people.

 In society are the Muslims and the official statistics of the prison has been noted that the greatest denomination of people on the increase who are going into prison is not the Hindus it's not the Sikhs it's not the other non-Muslims but the greatest Rising percentage of inmates in this country in Her Majesty's presence is the Muslims these are facts collected by them and increase of so many youth going into prison and many of these youth come from an Arab background and some of them come from the subcontinent background they are illiterate regarding their religion even to recite Surah al Fatiha they don't know how to recite it they don't know the basic tenants of their belief so once again it goes back to what are we doing for our society what are we doing for our youth.