Islam encourages the young people to use their ability and potential to develop one's intellectual, personality, spiritual and physical. This is important, as a nation's progress or downfall relies on the youth since they are considered as the future heirs of the nation's development.

In their Friday sermon yesterday, Imams across the Sultanate reminded the Muslim congregants to pay particular attention to youth development, particularly the spiritual aspect in age of today where God and religion are decimated by logic overdrive and extremely minute scientific analysis.

In mosques throughout the country, worshippers were told to give the appropriate guidance to the young generation, youth especially, due to the impressionable nature. Therefore, the Sultanate aims to produce a generation of Al-Quran literate youth. On the other hand, the Imams advised the Muslims against shelving Al-Quran as mere decoration both at home and the office. Instead, Muslims have a lifelong obligation to recite the Verses properly, understand its contents and apply the principles in life.

Al-Quran said the Imams before thousands of Muslim worshippers, some of whom are clearly dozed off, is the cure to the sickness of the heart. In Islam, disease or sickness of the heart consists of sinful consciousness such as being overly envious or jealous over someones success or happiness, misanthropy, greed and arrogance, among others.

The sermon yesterday came amidst the worrying social problems committed by youth of the nation, majority of which are underreported due to self-censorship and the overall apprehensive tendency of the local Malay Muslim population. Youth as young as ten-years-old are now readily exposed to destructive elements that masquerade in deceptive veil of happiness. Todays generation is born to a world where iPads, iPhones, and other highly advanced gadgets are just within arms length. It is not helping that teenagers nowadays, especially females, are willing to engage in unhealthy activities that totally compromise their academics, spirituality, dignity, and of course their future. They become extremely conscious with their body image and the selfie trend serves only to worsen their narcissistic fit where young girls are more than happy to upload their photos to Facebook, unaware that somewhere out there, paedophile and starving rapists are looming over them, looking for a possible opportunity to devour their potential victims.

Hence, today and the future youth generation should step up and enhance one's attitude, knowledge, skill and capability as to make changes for the better to achieve the objective and Vision 2035. BRUDIRECT.COM

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Muslim Youth Should be Guided Aright, Lead them not Astray