TOC: For a Better Future

For a Better Future

About the Author

Dedication

I Begin Here

PART I. What The Youth Need

Question n. 1
What qualities a good Muslim youth should have to be successful?

Question n. 2
How can I make use of my age and youth?

Question n. 3
How do I ask forgiveness for my sins?

Question n. 4
How should I deal with having a friend who I care about but who has bad behavior?

Question n. 5
How do I get rid of the habit of lying?

Question n. 6
Because of my illness I get distressed very easily. How can I be happy with my life?

Question n. 7
How do I reform my elder brother who commits majorsins?

Question n. 8
How can I smile when I do not feel happy or delighted inside myself?

Question n. 9
How do I lead an active life?

Question n. 10
As a young man how do I achieve success to attain happiness?

Question n. 11
How do I cure my nightmares?

Question n. 12
How do I get my students to refrain from wearing unIslamic fashion & clothing?

Question n. 13
What field should I specialize in at the university in order to be useful for society?

Question n. 14
How do I cure myself from being mean?

Question n. 15
How do I bear the difficulties of life?

Question n. 16
How do I practice patience and control my anger?

Question n. 17
How can I become skilled by continuing higher studies, when my father asks me to work with him?

Question n. 18
I am a confused young man, as I do not know my aim in life. Please help.

Question n. 19
How can we properly address the issue of illegal and harmful drugs?

Question n. 20
How can I help my father to be less materialistic?

Question n. 21
How does one make the best use of the time during one’s youth?

Question n. 22
How can I deal with family gatherings that include namahram relatives not observing hijab?

Question n. 23
How shall I deal with low self-esteem?

Question n. 24
How shall I help a friend who has psychological problems and suffers absentmindedness?

Question n. 25
How to defeat laziness

Question n. 26
How can I conquer my anger and stress?

Question n. 27
What should we do if our parents argue often?

Question n. 28
How can I get over issues of an unhappy childhood that involved abuse and divorce of my parents?

Question n. 29
How can I help a family member to be rightly guided?

Question n. 30
As a young girl, how do I avoid the mistakes in marital, family, and social relations?

Question n. 31
How do I help someone who values secular studies but not religion?

Question n. 32
How do I make myself to be content?

Question n. 33
How do I properly deal with losing my temper so that I neither abuse others nor make myself ill from swallowing my anger?

Question n. 34
How may we help someone who suffered a psychological trauma that caused him to withdraw?

Question n. 35
How can I abandon sins that are habitual for me, mend family relationships, and guide against fanaticism?

Question n. 36
After many hardships in life, I suffer from psychological problems and have thought of suicide at times. How can I get help?

Question n. 37
How can a young person suppress lust and the sins that come from it?

Question n. 38
How should we begin relationships with women and satisfy needs in the process of finding a spouse?

Question n. 39
What Islam says about masturbation?

Question n. 40
What is the solution for young people wanting to get married and avoid sin today in light of pressures to finish studies, get settled in jobs and pay very high costs for dowries and weddings?

Question n. 41
Is it lawful for a young unmarried couple thinking of marriage to exchange feelings by phone and letters and to spend time together in public places like parks if no touching is involved?

Question n. 42
I want to know what I should do to begin the process for marriage properly and avoid lustful sin while yet at a young age.

Question n. 43
I cannot afford to get married, so please advise me on what to do to avoid lustful sins in a way that is actually practical and effective.

Question n. 44
How can a young woman trying to be modest and religious properly handle temptations to sin like those often encountered at university?

Question n. 45
Two young people had relations before marriage, regret their sins, yet still want to marry even though it would be against the wishes of their families if they knew the truth about their relationship.

Question n. 46
How should we reconcile the practical realities of being unable to marry early as Islam recommends but yet facing the challenges of sexual lust while unmarried?

Question n. 47
What is your advice about a young man who seduces women and deceives them then abandons them after getting what he wants?

Question n. 48
I want to get married, but I want you to advise me. How should I move to a life that I have not known before?

Question n. 49
How can I make reason defeat lust and avoid opportunities and temptations for sinning?

Question n. 50
A brother of mine ended up in a bad marriage. This has made me afraid of marriage. How can I overcome this fear and also avoid his fate?

Question n. 51
How do I talk to a friend about a bad quality and still keep his friendship?

Question n. 52
What do you have to say about modern girls being more sexually aggressive even outside of marriage?

Question n. 53
How can modern young women acquire and maintain good moral traits?

Question n. 54
What is the solution to stop quarrels and disrespect amongst siblings?

Question n. 55
How can I save myself from worry, distraction, absent-mindedness, and forgetfulness?

Question n. 56
My father is always angry with us at home, but he is very good with others elsewhere. How do you explain this duality?

Question n. 57
How should we address someone who is sharply critical of everyone?

Question n. 58
How can we address the modern epidemic of depression?

Question n. 59
Can faith be spread today in spite of the inundation of temptations?

Question n. 60
My mother has behaviors which lead to quarrels in her marriage that affect the whole family. What can we do?

Question n. 61
How can religious youth protect their faith?

Question n. 62
Why do people suffer and die from things like cancer? How can we handle the suffering and loss of a loved one?

Question n. 63
How can I handle severe unhappiness and desperation?

Question n. 64
What should we do about people who sleep too much?

PART II: Husbands and Wives, Sharing lives and seeking Happiness

PART III: Children are Tomorrow’s Adults

Question n. 141
What are practical methods for raising upright children?

Question n. 142
What is the best way to raise children and teenagers: closely watching and managing their affairs, or trusting them and giving them freedom?

Question n. 143
Would you please do us a favor by showing the stages of the cultural growth of children in the light of the Islamic view?

Question n. 144
Please explain the Islamic philosophy of education so that I may compare it to modern theories of education.

Question n. 145
We are exhausted in trying to raise upright children in light of all the challenges today; what should we do?

Question n. 146
How is the personality of a child formed?

Question n. 147
From where do children receive their culture?

Question n. 148
What is your opinion about the plays of children and with what do you advise parents to play with their children?

Question n. 149
I would like to know the motives for my child’s acting nervous and violent.

Question n. 150
What should I do if I have a teenager who neglects prayers and is not interested in hijab?

Question n. 151
How should I deal with my children being constantly quarrelsome with each other?

Question n. 152
What should we do to make a child give up playing with others’ things?

Question n. 153
My wife and I differ in ideas of child rearing and she acts contrary to my wishes in child rearing; what can I do?

Question n. 154
I feel I treat my children unequally and love some more than others: What is the solution to this problem?

Question n. 155
How can I make my child more serious in his study?

Question n. 156
Why do my children not respect me?

Question n. 157
What is the influence of television and computer games on our children?

Question n. 158
How can I make my son leave bad friends?

Question n. 159
How do I teach my child to keep in order his toys and stuff?

Question n. 160
When my son became a teenager, he became disrespectful; why has this happened?

Question n. 161
How can we teach children not to be envious?

Question n. 162
What are the causes of envy among children and what are the solutions?

Question n. 163
My son is lazy and does not like his lessons. How should I deal with him?

Question n. 164
Would you please explain to me the most important bases of education?

Question n. 165
What do you think about beating children?

Question n. 166
I feel ashamed about my child’s bad behavior; what can I do?

Question n. 167
I need advice on how to manage my children given their own unique characteristics and ambitions.

Question n. 168
How can I sow the love of religion in my children so that they will adhere to it up to the last moment of their lives?

Question n. 169
I s it lawful to kill one’s daughter that left the house and became a prostitute?

Question n. 170
How do we cure drug addiction and how do we deal with the many problems caused by it?

Question n. 171
Would you please advise me as to how to deal with my children when they make mistakes?

Question n. 172
Would you please guide me as to what are the most important manners I need in educating my children?

Question n. 173
Would you please give us a summary of the Islamic opinion about education?

Question n. 174
How can I make my children love reading so that books and knowledge can be an important part of their interests in life?

Question n. 175
How do I deal with my teenager having unIslamic behaviors and interests?

Question n. 176
I feel my teenaged son is argumentative; what do I do?

Question n. 177
I have wicked sons who cause problems for neighbors and passers-by; what can I do as their father?

Question n. 178
How can I solve my child’s habit of lying?

Question n. 179
Whenever my child commits a mistake, I beat him but this method is not working, what should I do?

Question n. 180
Please explain about the harms of dealing with children severely and beating them.

Question n. 181
My son is almost an adult and I worry about him getting into sinful behaviors such as relations with girls; what should I do?

Question n. 182
What is the cause of children being disrespectful and disobedient?

Question n. 183
How should I train my toddler in eating by himself?

Question n. 184
Could you please give me some educational recommendations for my seven-year-old son?

Question n. 185
Could you please list the main point of Islamic education for the younger generations?

Question n. 186
What are the concerns about putting children in day care or in the care of non muslim-maids and schools in order for both parents to work?

Question n. 187
Why my daughter chews her nails and is often absent-minded?

Question n. 188
How should we address concerns about globalization of Western culture, television and Internet?

Question n. 189
What is the best way to teach adolescents so that they will follow good advice?

Question n. 190
How can we face the mutinous conduct of juveniles and prevent them from making friends with deviants outside the house?

Question n. 191
How should we deal with a son who was once religious but left religion?

Question n. 192
What are the most important education fallacies we live with due to the effects of foreign cultures?

Question n. 193
Would you please show me the causes of the good and bad phenomena I find in children?

Question n. 194
How can I come to accept the changing relationship with my daughter as she has become an adult?

Question n. 195
My husband makes many promises to our children that he does not fulfill; how can I deal with this problem?

Question n. 196
How should I deal with my toddler who asks incessant questions?

Question n. 197
My teenaged son keeps a very messy room, what can I do to break him of this bad habit?

Question n. 198
My son monopolizes the telephone and spends too much money on phone calls; what can I do?

Question n. 199
Is it acceptable to let our children be educated by the media, schools and streets?

Question n. 200
My children have bad eating habits; how can I fix this problem?

Supplication

-His supplication for his parents

-His supplication for his children