Yasir Qadhi – Teenagers Are Not Children!

Yasir Qadhi
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The speaker discusses the difference between the Islamic and Western civilization, where teenagers are primarily responsible for what they do and not the children. They stress that teenagers are not children but rather young adults who have to act in according to their reality as a result of their teenage age. The speaker emphasizes the need for parents to act in according to the reality and not just tell them the truth.

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			One of the fundamental differences between the Islamic paradigm and Muslim culture and Muslim ik law
versus Western civilization. When it comes to raising children, they have made a category called
teenager whereas for us, a young man or woman is indeed a young man or woman, but a young man or a
young woman. And that means that once you become valuable, which is 1314 15, at max at max, you are
going to be treated in the eyes of Allah like an adult. So teenagers are not children, they are
young adults, once they are body a responsibility becomes on them and they are primarily responsible
in the eyes of Allah for what they do, and therefore we as parents need to not just tell them this
		
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			and train them with this but then act in accordance with this reality. Your teenager is a young
adults and what that means is that before they answer to you, they have to answer to Allah subhanho
wa Taala