Yusha Evans – Our Youth, Our Future

Said that our Prophet, sallAllahu sallam, said that Allah is amazed.

Allah is amazed at a young person who, throughout their youth can

resist the desires and temptations of this world. That Allah becomes

amazed at a young person who, throughout their youth can resist

the desires and temptations of this world. How will they be able

to do resist the desires and temptations of this world if we do

not make them feel like they are part and parcel to this ummah, if

we do not make them feel like they are part and parcel to this

community, if we do not do that, within a few generations, these

masajid will be empty, or they will be inhabited by a few elders

who are holding on, and then they will be sold off to other places.

This is the reality that faces us if we don't focus on our youth, if

we want our youth to step up and be the next leaders, the next

Imams, the next Ulema, the next forbearers of this religion in the

next generation. It has to begin now. It has to begin now. And that

is the focus that I have had for many, many, many years. And that

is the focus that I brought with me to this masjid. And that is the

focus that this Masjid has is to put our youth and give them

understanding that they are as important to this community as

everyone else. They are as important, if not maybe more

important, because all of us are heading to our graves very

quickly. They are the strength if if they take up the banner of

Islam, if they take this religion firmly, I promise you, they can do

the things that we were not able to do. They have they're growing

up in a generation where they are more well equipped than generation

we grew up with. They have the internet, they have social media,

they have knowledge. They've been given so many more advantages, if

they were to use those advantages for the right reason and attach

them to their belief in Allah, Subhanahu wa, their belief in the

Prophet sallallahu, sallam, and their love for their Deen, and we

were to teach them the love of the masjid, then these places would

run like welled oiled machines. That is our goal. He would mash

Salah Haddin Inshallah, Alhamdulillah. Rabbi

Lamin was Salatu was abhi AJ Maheen,

and anyone who thinks that the youth do not play a prominent role

in the Ummah, you have not studied the Sira.

You don't know the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu, sallam. When

you look at the Sira of the Prophet alayhi, salatu wasalam,

even to the beginning of it, the first people to accept this

religion were from the youth

when he decided to make one of the most important decisions he can

make in the early Sira, when the treaty, the second treaty of

Aqaba, was made and the people of Yathrib wanted a representative,

when the Prophet Salla Salam said, I cannot go because Allah has not

given me permission. But they said, Then, send us a delegate.

This means that the Prophet, peace be upon him, would have to choose

someone who would represent Him, Salvador Hale wasallam, who would

represent this religion in a place that could become something

amazing. He chose a very young man named Musa Abu ibn Umar Radi

Allahu Ayan, who had not yet reached the age of 20 to go to

Yathrib and be his representative, and because of the efforts of

this, Musa ibn Umar said ibn Abi waqah, sab Ibn wa said Ibn all of

them accepted Islam, and it became Known as the city of the Prophet

alayhi salatu wasalam, and he would then give his life on the

day of ad for this beautiful religion.

And our Prophet, sallAllahu, sallam, cried profusely at his

grave when he saw him on the battlefield and said, Ya Musab,

you gave everything from Allah and left nothing. He lost both of his

arms, and they still found the flag between his teeth.

The youth have in them power that we don't have. We're getting old.

We're getting tired. You know, the world is passing us by. We don't

understand many of the things that are happening in the world today.

But your children, do these youth, do? They were born and raised

here. They understand this world, they understand this community,

they understand this society. It is about it is past time we start

giving them responsibilities and start putting them in the

positions that they should be, because they do have to take our

place, and if we don't prepare them for that.

That, then how are they going to be successful? You cannot be

successful at something you weren't prepared for. It's not as

if Allah is just going to guide them like the Mahdi one day

overnight, and they're going to become the next leaders of the

community. We have to start building that now. That is our

goal, inshallah. And if you go and if you have any doubt about the

fact that this is part of the Sunnah of the Prophet alayhi

salatu wassalam. I challenge you to go read the Sira and look at

whom the Prophet sallallahu Sallam chose for prominent positions of

leadership. Go and look at the last army he would ever send out

in his lifetime. I'm not going to tell you the name, because I'm

going to ask you some questions tonight at our at our at our

gathering, the last army and delegation that the Prophet

salallahu alayhi wa sallam would ever send out. He chose a young

boy to lead it at around 15, 1617, years old. And there was some

questions, there was some concerns, there were some

complaints. Just like we have complaints, why would you choose

someone so young for something so important? When the complaints

were told to our prophets of the law, even in his last illness, he

drug himself and was carried to his member and said, I have heard

your complaints, and I am telling you by Allah, by Allah, there is

no one more dearer to me for this position than this boy and his

father. And if you know who his father was. If you know who the

boy was, you know who his father was. Imma, leave that for some Q

and A tonight, our Prophet sallallahu Sallam understood this,

and that army went out and was successful in his mission. And it

was a grand mission. After the death of the Prophet sallallahu

sallam, they even wanted to cancel this mission. And Abu Bakr said,

No, I will not stop something which the Prophet Elahi salatu

wasalam sent out. And they tried to get him to replace the leader.

And he said, I will not replace someone whom the Prophet

sallallahu Sallam himself chose. The power of youth needs to be

understood. If we harness it, if we harness it, if we as a

community, harness the power of our youth, we can become one of

the most amazing communities that this country has ever seen. If we

harness that power, if we falter at it, then it will be a community

of old men who will eventually die, and then it will be

uninhabited, or will have to keep immigrating more old men and old

women to fill up these roles. That is not what we want. We want a

community of people who understand the world that they live in. One

of the qualifications, I believe, and I have heard this from many of

my teachers, that one of the qualifications for leadership in a

community of Muslims that they understand the world that they

living in. They understand the society. They understand the world

that is around them, not talking about the world at large, but they

understand the world in which they live in.

That is what our youth understand, and if we nurture them, especially

the ones who show interest. And I've sat down with our youth,

there's plenty of them that show interest. I will not squander that

interest. I will not be the person who watches that interest get

squandered away or put out or that light extinguished, because I've

seen it happen too many times, and I know the repercussions of it,

and we will suffer for it. That light will be encouraged, that

light will be fueled, that light will be pushed forward so that the

next generation looks better than the generation sitting here right

now. Because if we don't leave the world better than we found it,

then we've accomplished nothing, nothing. We've just existed. The

next generation of this ummah should look better than the one

that is here now, and it cannot if we don't have the youth, there is

a masjid in Turkey. The name of it literally just went in my mind. I

literally haven't slept, and I came back with a flu from from

from the UK. There's a masjid in Turkey. I've been to it. You might

know the name. There is a sign in this Masjid that says, if you do

not hear the crying and playing of children inside the masjid, then

have sorrow for the next generation. Have sorrow for the

next generation. If you don't hear the playing of children in the

masjid, then your next generation is doomed. There will be no next

generation. If they're not raised to love this place, they won't

care about it. They won't have any concern. So Inshallah, I ask Allah

to give us youth that are the next generation of leaders. I ask Allah

to bless all of your children to be the next generation of leaders.

I ask Allah to bless all of your children to be raised as swallow

and swaliha, as upright, pious and righteous Muslims that can take

the banner of Islam farther and wider than we've ever been able to

imagine. But it cannot happen with ours and yours. Help insha,

Allahu, to Allah, may Allah. Bless you all Robin, Athena, hasana,

wafirin, alaman, Muslim.

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