How to Educate Our Youth to Call to Allāh in the Optimal Way

Dear youths: You should employ all your leisure time, health and all the capacities you have in seeking and memorizing knowledge, memorizing and contemplating on the Qur'ān, acquiring more knowledge and occupying yourselves with acts of obedience to Allāh. You should also compete with worshippers in offering Salāh (prayer) in the first row in the two Sacred Masājid during your weekends, on Thursday and Friday, for example. This is a good balance you should focus on. Political agitation, however, fosters envy, hatred and resentment and causes love among people to fade away. Muslims are duty-bound to love one another for the sake of Allāh, not for a political reason or any other purpose. If our youth follow the way we explained in seeking knowledge and pay no heed to the political fields that busy the minds of many of them, they will feel comfortable and cause no unrest. Notably, politics is not a simple field. It is a critical sub-topic in Fiqh that should only put into practice after a thorough study. Young people who occupy themselves with politics are therefore wasting their lives.I advise them to change their attitude and start to study the history and biographies of the scholars to know how they acquired knowledge; how they started and how they succeeded. We should instruct the youth to seek knowledge and act in accordance with it. Later, they are expected to be the future callers to Allāh. If they call to Allāh with insight ــــ having been educated this way ــــ they will bring much benefit to their countries and people.