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Supreme Religious Authority warns against
underestimating young people, calls
for embracing them
In Friday’s sermon delivered by the young people with credentials will kill their
representative of the Shia Muslim Supreme credentials and potential, and it is inappropriate
Religious Authority, sheikh Abdul-Mehdi Al- to compare an expert’s knowledge to a young
Kerbela’i talked about the importance of taking person’s and think that their qualifications are
care of the youth and the challenges they face. inadequate, for they society needs young people
Al-Kerbela’i said that young people are the with great potential.
backbone of the country and they represent Al-Kerbela’i stressed the necessity of
vitality, creativeness, and progress, and they appreciating the youth and discovering their
are the pivot of performing life’s essential tasks, capacities to use them properly.
noting that Islam and advanced societies always He added further that young people with
take care of the youth by educating them and great knowledge and potential shouldn’t feel
protecting them from delinquency. conceited, and therefore not be receptive or
One of the challenges, Al-Kerbela’i mentioned, is listen to others’ advice.
intellectual invasion, saying that young people – He said further that some people think success
at an early age – are exposed to different cultures, can be achieved with money, by having power,
behaviours, creeds, traditions, and desires, or an academic degree, noting that academic
and such people are usually inexperienced studies are essential to build the society, but
and may be deceived or tempted to embrace that should not direct the attention merely to
inappropriate concepts. academic studies and neglect ethics, values,
He warned the youth of feeling frustrated and the Creator of life and the hereafter, appropriate
lost, for each young person has potential he traditions, and the sense of community
should use in a good way. belonging.
Al-Kerbela’i indicated that materialistic and Al-Kerbela’i concluded, saying it’s important that
emotional privation is another challenge young intellectual and cultural establishments, schools,
people face who may take inappropriate ways to universities, and mass media take care of the
fulfil such desires, if they don’t find them possible youth, for they are the society’s promising future.
to fulfil appropriately.
He also called for avoiding underestimating the
youth, noting that those who underestimate
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