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Is This Cultural Backwardness or Highness in Morality?
September 19th, 2011 | 
Author: This life has given us a right to say no and to choose freely and willfully. This very freedom also allows us the luxury of sense of right and wrong. Recently I chatted with a 54-year-old Scotsman on one of the video chatting websites. He was interested to ask me a few questions about Islam. The very first question that often pops up in minds of westerners is regarding sex before marriage. He was no different to ask me that very question.
I told him that in Islam, it is not allowed for men and women to have sex before marriage. One can only have sex if one is committed in solemn marital bond with another person according to Islamic law. He said that he does not understand any logic behind this approach and called it a cultural backwardness. I explained to him that according to Islam, sex is an intimate thing due to which for both health purposes as well as societal stability, Islam asks people to have sex only when they trust someone or are in a solemn relationship with that person, and that solemn relationship has to be marriage. Nothing short of a marital trust between spouses will do.
Furthermore, to show how Islam views sex, I told him that sex is indeed one of the sensual pleasures that God gave to humans, but that it should be practiced with moderation like all other things and not hedonistically. Since most people in the west who trumpet about freedom of self and senses do not consider themselves morally and religiously bound to any superior law of God, they can indulge their senses without pricking their conscience.
I pointed it out to him that when he will look at Islam’s line of logic on the issue, only then can he agree with it. But if he establishes any other premise to derive his own line of thought, then of course, the difference in approach will occur. What he considered cultural backwardness is in fact highness in morality preached by Islam and other religions as well.
Such differences in approach then don’t just end in thoughts, but reflect upon the whole fabric of society itself. He also openly told me that he smokes marijuana and really likes it a lot. Even though that it is illegal to possess an ounce of it, but for those running in line of pleasing and dipping their senses in tranquility they feel through it, any law does not matter, whether it be state created or God’s Law.
He was an atheist. Although atheism does not hold it in its motto to disobey the state at all, many atheists believe they are bound to no law whatsoever, as state law is human-made and following it will be bowing down to other humans’ wills. We ended up agreeing on one inimitable truth, that both religion and politics present a vast ground for rigorous debates, so for an open-minded person, all views are welcomed till they are presented tolerantly. Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance is its highest virtue. Both the West and the Muslims need to be reminded of this fact today.
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FRUSTRATION IN YOUTH OF PAKISTAN
Today the youth of Pakistan is running for a social status, and in this struggle they are losing their peace of mind. There are different factors behind it. Scientific revolution has made this world a global village and one thing that is exploiting the human nature is flood of information. Information is not a bad thing but when this information is given in a wrong perspective, at wrong time and to those who don't need it at all; it creates such problems like frustration and depression.
Secondly, we are going away from natural life styles and are adopting those patterns of lives that we are forced by the society. Parents are also responsible of all this tragedy. Speaking of frustration among Youth, well I believe there are many things that can get them carried away into the wrong turn which would in return unearth frustration, depression, and even suicide.
Depression and failure is the major cause of frustration among youth.
Youth is always the storehouse of energy, enthusiasm and have an inbuilt fire of action burning within them. If this inbuilt fire for activity is not channelized in the proper direction, his frustrations and disappointments take hold of him.
Aspirations and desires are always the hallmark of the young, which always existed and still exist among the young. This is because they have not seen the world and have their own imaginations about the world and life in it.
It is the training of the child in his early days of childhood that prepares the ground for his unhappiness and frustrations. The feeling that he can get anything he first deserves becomes a nightmare for him when he grows a little and realizes the bitter truth that, little does the world care for anyone and that he is not getting all that he wants or demands. Thus the causes of frustration in the modern youth lie within their style of bringing up.
Television and the cinema are the other major factors causing frustration in youth. The glamour seen on these screens makes the still immature child feel that this is real life. This again is bound to discouragement to his mind to get fulfill his expectations from life.
One of the top reasons towards frustration is the lack of self-acceptance. They are never satisfied with what they are born with. Either it's the jealousy that arise within them having seen someone excel them academically, socially etc or it's just that they want to stand out from the rest. BUT what's the end result of all this?? Nothing but frustration!! Not only are they frustrated but they affect people around them who love and nurture them.
At this stage, what society can do is provide support. Of course, support starts from close ones, especially family.
Parents should always make sure they are there for their children in times of good and bad. This way frustration can be eliminated to the minimum. The more time with tranquility, love and tenderness a family would spend together with their youths, the better the result. They also need to make sure that their youths are hanging out with the right friends.
If the young are brought with a correct perspective of life, they will know how to face discontent without committing suicide or taking to drugs.
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Tags: depression, Mental Health, Suicide, youth, Youth empowerment | 
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Dukhi Insaniat Ki Khidmat
Services to suffering humanity
The verse of the Holy Quran, which so briefly covers this idea of service to humanity, reads.
O people of Islam, “You are the best people ever raised for the good of mankind because you have been raised to serve others; you enjoin what is good and forbid evil and believe in Allah.”
You will remain the finest as long as you are service-minded, promote good and promote the welfare of society. If you fail to do this, you no longer have a right to boast of the superiority of Islam and the Muslim Ummah. A society which is insensitive to the suffering of other human beings and is not always inclined to serve the cause of humanity cannot be described as an Islamic society, no matter how much it adhered to other aspects of Islamic teachings.
The fundamental qualities that we must all acquire to serve mankind or to develop a passion to serve mankind are: love for humanity, kindness in our hearts for others, a charitable disposition, humility, honesty, a thirst for knowledge, a desire to share knowledge with others and a constant desire to strive in the cause of Allah by doing good. We must be a people from whom goodness flows towards others.
The teachings of the Holy Quran and the example of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) direct us on how best to serve mankind. The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) practiced the teachings of the Holy Quran to the fullest extent and is the best example of the true representation of service to mankind and to Allah. That is why Allah says in the Holy Quran.
The most basic way of serving mankind is inviting people to the path of Allah and praying for them. While it is the duty of all Muslims to invite people to Allah, it is our prime responsibility and utilizes considerable resources and manpower through its various schemes to do this.
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