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World of Our Youth
262 pages
Published March 2, 1998
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January 11, 2021
A scholar highly recommended this book. I feel like this is a great book for all parents and the youth. It describes the challenges Muslim youth face in the west and how to overcome them. It talks to the youth, the parents, and the educator. It provides the youth with knowledge to be able to make better choices based on Islamic principles and not cultural or society. It also gives insight to parents and educators on how to teach and raise their kids/students. It talks about everything, even sex, masturbation, and pornography which a lot of times are not spoken about. Whether you read this once or keep on your bookshelf you will learn a lot from it, and most of what you learn is immediately applicable.
March 7, 2015
This is a beautiful and easy read reflecting Sayed Fudhlullah's Islamic outlook on life. It is split into six volumes (or chapters) each touching (not too much depth here) on various topics relevant to the youth such as the importance of environment and its influence on us, the role of women in the social and political sphere, marriage, hijab, the upbringing of children, and culture and its influence on Islam. He also touches on some fiqh issues relating to mixed environments, chess and music (this book is by no means a fiqh book).
It is not a book in the traditional sense but rather a transcript of a number of meetings someone held with the Sayed where they would question him on his views regarding a number of issues hence the wide spectrum of topics mentioned above. I did like how the sayed would often quote verses of the Quran and Hadith when getting his point across. Also at the end of each chapter there would be a list of quoted hadith relevant to the subjects discussed which I thought was a nice addition. Interestingly the Sayed did not define youth as a particular age range but rather a mentally chaotic and trouble-filled state of mind that may begin at the commencement of adolescence and continue until we evolve emotionally, spiritually and attain inner peace (a state helped by marriage?).
All in all I think its well worth the read if you want help understanding the aims of Islamic thought and a deeper insight into one of the most influential Shia Scholars of the 20th century; I truly believe he was a scholar in its real Islamic definition and inculcated the great saying of Imam Ali (AS): "Do not mold your children's ethics according to yours, for they are of a different time than yours"
It is not a book in the traditional sense but rather a transcript of a number of meetings someone held with the Sayed where they would question him on his views regarding a number of issues hence the wide spectrum of topics mentioned above. I did like how the sayed would often quote verses of the Quran and Hadith when getting his point across. Also at the end of each chapter there would be a list of quoted hadith relevant to the subjects discussed which I thought was a nice addition. Interestingly the Sayed did not define youth as a particular age range but rather a mentally chaotic and trouble-filled state of mind that may begin at the commencement of adolescence and continue until we evolve emotionally, spiritually and attain inner peace (a state helped by marriage?).
All in all I think its well worth the read if you want help understanding the aims of Islamic thought and a deeper insight into one of the most influential Shia Scholars of the 20th century; I truly believe he was a scholar in its real Islamic definition and inculcated the great saying of Imam Ali (AS): "Do not mold your children's ethics according to yours, for they are of a different time than yours"
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