What kind of young people does Allah love?
The prophet Muhammad (PBUH), who is one of the most important example and the greatest guide for us with his life, said: “Allah loves the youth who does not follow the unlawful lust very much” (Musnad, 4:151)
In this hadith, there is good news for the youth who are undergoing the stormiest and dangerous period of their lives: Being liked by Allah.
This is such good news that it is more valuable and loftier than all individuals whom a person love and want to gain their fancy.
For, as Badiuzzaman said, “Whoever befriends Allah, everything becomes a friend and everything will be useful for him.”
The famous Hikam al Ataiyya said, “What will a person who has found Allah lose? And what will a person who has lost Him gain?” That is, a person who finds Him will have had everything and a person who cannot find Him is not considered to have found anything. If he finds something, it will become a misfortune for him.”
After all, the way to gain the consent of Allah which is worthy of the world is not to follow unlawful lust.
In the hadiths about the youth, the following is stated: “Allah regards the youth who abandons his haram lust as some of His angels.”
This is so clear that, the meaning of a hadith which was narrated by Hz. Jabir (RA) is as follows: “When a young person gets married in his young age, his Satan says the following by screaming: “Alas, He saved his religion from me” (Ramuz al Ahadith, v.1 p.179)
The glorious prophet (PBUH) attracted attention to this subject, which is very important, by stating the following: “The evilest ones of you are those who are not married” (Kashful Khafa, 2:6)
I wonder where the importance of lust comes from; abandoning it gains someone the love of Allah and makes the youth like angels?
Why does protecting the feeling of lust with marriage is regarded the same as protecting the religion from Satan?
And why are the evilest people those who are not married?
We must say that, the ruling in the last hadith is not a general one. This hadith is for the ones who are single but unable to protect their chastity. Otherwise there were many single companions from ashab as-Suffa. There are many heroes of Islam who did not get married. People who do not run after haram lust and who protect their chastity by being single are of course out of the scope of this hadith. On the contrary, if they are not married just because of the intention of serving Islam more, they are worthy of congratulation and appreciation.
For, what is essential is protecting the chastity. Marriage is a means of it. If a married person cannot protect his chastity though he is married, he is more harmful than a single person.
Now let us answer the questions that we have listed above.
Yes, why is chastity regarded so important and why are people advised to refrain from lust?
First of all running after unlawful lust is an indecent act. It destroys the institution of family, which is the foundation of the society, and mixes the generations.
Besides, running after unlawful lust destroys the time, health, work power and school life of the youth. It also leads people to commit suicide.
There are so many young people who fight and commit murders due to lust and who spend their lives in hospitals or in prisons. There are so many young people who get ill and die because of it.
If we have a look around us, we will see so many young people who abandon their jobs or schools, who become ill, who waste most of their time and who lose their own money or their parents' money due to lack of chastity.
Brilliant, talented and intelligent young people are eliminated and destroyed.
Therefore, especially young people, who are in the middle of the danger, are warned seriously in the verses and hadiths; they are advised to be chaste.
In order to prevent young people from being trapped, it is insistently stated that the whole life will be destroyed when a person is captivated by lust and that the lives and talents are given to people so that they will know and worship Allah.
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