In a western world, it's hard to put Allah in your every routine when you haven't make him a priority. We follow friends and the sparkles of this world, and ends up straying from our Deen (faith). How can we live in these times of the end when the world is so attractive ? How can we attain the strength to balance a life of Islam and norms without sinning brutally ? Sex is not sacred anymore, marriage isn't taken seriously, children are brought into the world without parents and we accept these choices because it's a norm.
As a Muslim, this isn't norms to us and that's the first thing we should remember. The Quran was sent as a guide and we should use it like a manual to this life we live. Allah is the most merciful, and we as humans makes mistakes. The stages of life, mistakes starts when we're the teenage age. We have boyfriends at 12/15 and it's a norm. We start doing what our peers do, especially non Muslims, if we don't have Muslim company around. Drinking, smoking, liming without company of adults and meeting strange people, is all part of the age. Children get pulled into situations they don't even know that they're being pulled into. They hardly have guidance from adults because adults spend all their time away from kids these days. Either at work, late hours into the night or with friends who they have to maintain to keep their "young" image. Who's leading/guiding our children ?
Being close to practicing people is so important at that age. The routine of prayer should already be instilled. Quran should be literate to children, and they should also know how to fear Allah. When they do wrong, they should feel guilty and know to immediately repent. Sounds like things we learnt at and older age right ? Times has changed, children mature faster and chooses the life they wana live at a younger age.
They also face so many problems that's adults don't know or take the time to know about and what do they turn to ? An addiction. Something that can make them forget their problems. The top addictions are alcohol and cigarettes. We wonder why they turn to that but they're always signs, do we see it to stop it while it's early ? No attention is payed to them to even start to see the signs. We wait until they get older, when it's too late, while some make better life choices, others wither in the substances. What can we do now ?
By this time, they're 18-20. School has finished, their friendships has ended (most times in popular situations), and new life choices awaits them. Apart from the addictions some has grown and matured. Some choose to have god in their life because of the new peers they have, some choose worse. Without god, u can't live life. Let's be clear there ! Most will loose their way and realize that god is there and then find it back. Putting Islam into their lives at this point is more than a routine, it's more like a soul search, and that's why we see so many young adults mature and understand life better. Better yet if they start university and they join their religious groups, they pray on time, they have better friends, righteous friends. People who remind them of Allah ! And this is the kind of life that will make them happier !
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