Be Less Virtual, More 3D!

Khutba at ISCJ on Feb. 13, 2009 by Faraz Khan
Be less virtual, more 3D (((audio)))

The challenges at Home (the upbringing of youth, internet use, and pop culture) during downturn economy.

Life Cycle in the Quran:

Here is one aya in the Quran explaining away the challenges of life for all ages. The stages in one's life are the following:

childhood - play and amusement
youth - beautification
adult - mutual boasting
elder - increase in wealth and children

Quran Al-Hadid - 57:20
YUSUF ALI translation: "Know ye (all), that the life of this world is but play and amusement, pomp and mutual boasting and multiplying, (in rivalry) among yourselves, riches and children.

Here is a similitude: How rain and the growth which it brings forth, delight (the hearts of) the tillers; soon it withers; thou wilt see it grow yellow; then it becomes dry and crumbles away.

But in the Hereafter is a Penalty severe (for the devotees of wrong). And Forgiveness from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure (for the devotees of Allah). And what is the life of this world, but goods and chattels of deception?"