Youth and Entertainment
One of the means that kill the time and ideals of our youth is the entertainment prohibited by our religion. Cafeterias, pubs, discotheques, nightclubs, music halls, casinos, etc, which have becomes centers of illegitimate games and entertainment of especially today, steal the golden years of our youth.
First of all, it is necessary to make this determination: Excessive entertainment is needed because of problems. If a person has a spiritual, hearty and emotional problems, he resorts to games and entertainment.
We can say that the more troubles a person has the more entertainment he desires.
The types of entertainment that people prefer in order to relax and have fun are divided into two:
Some of them have been prohibited by our religion; others are permissible.
Prohibited kinds of entertainment are alcohol, gambling, illegitimate music and occasions where women and men entertain together
The way to keep away from them is to have a strong belief. If a person does not have a strong belief and if he does not worship, the mind, heart, spirit and feelings will remain hungry and idle. This will bring about trouble and discontent.
Belief and worship provide peace and happiness; so there is not much need for entertainment.
The kinds of entertainment prohibited by our religion bring about unhappiness both in the world and in the hereafter. It is necessary to listen to the following warnings of Badiuzzaman Said Nursi:
"Youth will go. And if it goes being squandered, it results in thousands of calamities and pains both in this world and in the Hereafter. And if you want to understand how the majority of such youths end up in hospitals with imagined diseases arising from misspent youth and prodigality, and in prisons or hostels for the destitute through their excesses, and in bars due to the distress arising from their pain and suffering, then go and ask at the hospitals, prisons and graveyards." (Sözler (Words), p.153)
In fact, those young people who spend their youth outside the boundaries of the religion lose their health, freedom and peace due to the mistakes and excessive acts end up in hospital, prison and pubs.
In fact, legitimate pleasures and entertainment are enough to satisfy young people. Our religion does not prohibit the entertainment that avoids prohibited issues like alcohol and gambling. The following advice regarding the issue is remarkable:
"And so, you unfortunates who are addicted to the pleasures of the life of this world, and with anxiety at the future, struggle to secure it and your lives! If you want pleasure, delight, happiness, and ease in this world, make do with what is licit. That is sufficient for your enjoyment. You will surely have understood from other parts of the Risale-i Nur that in each pleasure which is outside this, and is illicit, lies a thousand pains. If the events of the future-for example, of fifty years hence-were also shown in the cinema in the same way that they show at the present time the events of the past, those who indulge in vice would weep filled with horror and disgust at those things which now amuse them. Those who wish to be permanently, eternally happy in this world and the Hereafter should take as their guide the instruction of Muhammad (PBUH) within the sphere of belief." (Sözler (Words), p.150)
The real happiness in life can be obtained through belief and Islam. "If you want the pleasure and enjoyment of life, give life to your life through belief, and adorn it with religious duties. And preserve it by abstaining from sins." (Sözler (Words), p. 152)
There are definitely problems, discontent and fights in the games and entertainment prohibited by Islam. Therefore, the following statement is quite exemplary:
"True enjoyment, pain-free pleasure, grief-free joy, and life's happiness are only to be found in belief and in the sphere of the truths of belief. While a single worldly pleasure yields numerous pains. As though dealing ten slaps for a single grape, it drives away all life's pleasure." (Sözler (Words), p.156)
It is enough to have a look at the news about robberies, muggings, murders and accidents in order to understand how justified those warnings are. They all originate from the fact that they exceed the limits imposed by our religion. People who have fun illegitimately lose their temper so much that they may kill one another.
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