In today's technologically ubiquitous world, our youth are but a click away from evil and corruption. The internet, television and other forms of digital media coverage invite the potential for destruction. In addition to the allure of sinning online is the attraction of charismatic speakers seeking to misguide our Muslim youth. These trials test young Muslims in ways society was never tested before.
The instantaneous and unrelenting timeline of information can overwhelm a young mind, deviating it from sound understanding before a parent or teacher even knows a struggle has begun.
Why the Causes Come Before the Remedy
Because a solution applied to the wrong cause fails, and most attempts to address wayward youth do exactly that — treating the symptom (the specific sin, the specific opinion adopted) rather than what produced the vulnerability in the first place.
This book works through the actual causes: weak grounding in creed, isolation from sound scholarship, unsupervised exposure to whoever is loudest online, and the absence of anyone a young person trusts enough to ask the questions he is actually asking.
The Means to Remedy It
Practical rather than merely diagnostic — what parents, teachers and communities can actually do, grounded in the Qur'an and Sunnah rather than in generic advice that could apply to any culture's problems with its own young people.
Who It Is For
Parents, youth workers, teachers, and any young Muslim honest enough to recognize himself in the description.
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