Before loosing the opportunity, you should try to remedy this.

Before loosing the opportunity, you should try to remedy this. You young people are advancing toward old age, and we old people toward death. With every breath and every step you take, and with each passing moment of your life, reform becomes more difficult, and it is possible for darkness and corruption to increase. While you enjoy the strength and determination of youth you can expel selfish desires, worldly attractions and animal wants from yourselves.

A young heart is subtle and celestial, and within it the motivation for corruption is weak. However, the older one gets the stronger and more firm is the source of sin implanted in the heart, until it can no longer be uprooted. Repentance is not merely the verbal expression, “I repent before Allah,” rather, contrition and the resolve to abandon one’s sin are also necessary. Behave well with people, and in company, and be compassionate and kind.

Behave well with the good and righteous servants of God. Someone from whose hands, tongue and eyes other Muslims are not safe is not truly a Muslim. To slander one of the servants of God is to slander God. Someone who pursues selfish desires and who is obedient to Satan gradually turns the color of Satan. The people of the other world are pure and at peace with one another. Their hearts are overflowing with the love of God and servitude to Him.

The love for the servants of God is the shadow of that very love for God. The noble Qur’an is a great divine trust. The ‘ulama and ruhaniyyun (clergy) are the bearers of the divine trust. The responsibilities of the learned are very heavy; the ‘ulama have more duties than other people. It is narrated that when the soul reaches the throat, there is no longer any chance for repentance and in that state one’s repentance will not be accepted.

If an ‘alim is deviant, it is possible that the community will become infected by deviation. If an ‘alim is refined, and he observes the morality and manners of Islam, he will refine and guide the community. In a soul which is unrefined, knowledge is a dark cover. Knowledge is light, but in a black corrupt heart it spreads wide the skirts of darkness and blackness A knowledge which would draw man closer to God, in a worldly soul brings him far distant from the place of the Almighty.

Even the knowledge of divine unity ( tawhid ), if it is for anything other than God, it becomes a cover of darkness.