The Youth and Bad Habits
Bad habits are among the biggest dangers that the youth who are open to novelties and changes by creation come across. They may easily fall into the trap of bad habits because of their emotional natures and desires for differences
As a matter of fact, many harmful habits are formed during the period of youth.
We can list many harmful habits foremost smoking, alcohol, drugs and gambling. Our glorious prophet (PBUH) warned us against harmful habits and wanted us to spend our time with useful and good things.
There are scholars who considered smoking makrooh and there are even scholars who considered it haram. for, the judgment about it changes according to the state of the person. If the person has financial difficulty and if smoking causes him a vital damage, then it is a grave sin.
Smoking is at least makrooh and it is considered bad because, it has no benefit and it is harmful. Besides, it harms other people with its stink.
There are certain verses that prohibit alcohol and gambling. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) explained the quality of haram drinks with the following hadith: “Any beverage that intoxicates is haram.” Accordingly, anything that has the quality of intoxicating human beings is haram.
He also answered another important question with the following “Whatever intoxicates in large quantities, a small quantity of it is forbidden, too.” (Tirmidhi, Ashriba: 2) Nowadays, there are people who say, “The beer contains a small amount of alcohol; is it haram, too?” This hadith indicates that anything that intoxicates in large quantities is haram in a small quantity.
Another hadith about alcohol is as follows:
“May Allah damn the one whodrinks alcohol, who distributes, who sells, buys, produces alcohol, the one for whom it is produced, the one who carries and the one for whom it is carried and the one who spends the money earned from alcohol.” (Tirmidhi, Buyu: 58)
In the hadith, ten people are cursed; we should avoid not only drinking but also being among the other nine groups.
The centers who want to deceive clean and pure minds and who want to abuse them for their dirty interests present cigarettes, alcoholic drinks, drugs and gambling in attractive wrapping. Those people, who want to trap our young people and earn a lot of money, use every means in order to encourage young people to fall into bad habits.
In fact, the worst and most sorrowful news in newspapers and on TV is related to bad habits. The Prophet (pbuh) warned us 14 centuries ago by saying, "Alcohol is the mother of all evil." Many murders, thefts, muggings and traffic accidents take place every day because the warning of the Prophet is not heeded.
The way to be protected from bad habits is to obtain sound religious knowledge and to practice Islam. People fall into these habits because the mind and the spirit are left hungry. However, if we feed our spiritual feelings with belief and worship, spend our days by serving our religion and conveying the beauties of our religion to others, we will not need any bad habits; nor will we have time for them.
The best thing to do is not to approach bad habits and not to fall into the trap. Those who encourage us by saying, "Just taste it; there is no harm if you drink it only once" or "Everybody drinks at weddings" are not our friends but enemies. They are not aware of the harm that they cause by speaking like that. Those fake smiles and pleasures will be transformed into tears and torture both in the world and the hereafter.
Some weddings, birthday parties, parties and proms are like the traps of bad habits.
If a person is trapped once, he may easily be trapped again because the soul, feelings and Satan lead people to evil.
Therefore, we should keep away from the places where bad habits are abundant. Pubs, discotheques, bars, etc are places that darken the world and the hereafter of the young people.
We should keep away from those places and meet our friends at clean places, religious talks and religious services.
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