The Guide For The Youth | AN ADVICE, A LESSON AND A REMINDER GIVEN TO SOME Y | 28
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If you give up illicit desires, which are like the poisonous honey, and aquire belief and perform thr religious duties, which are the Qur’anic talisman, one hundred and twenty-four thousand prophets (upon whom be peace) together with innumerable saints and people of truth have unanimously announced that you shall recieve the ticket for the treasury of eternal happiness which comes up from the extraordinary lottery of human destiny. And they have pointed to traces of it.

IN SHORT: Youth will go. And if it goes being squandered, it results in thousands of calamities and pains both in this world and in the Hereafter. And if you want to understand how the majority of such youths end up in hospitals with imagined diseases arising from misspent youth and prodigality, and in prisons or hostels for the destitute through their excesses, and in bars due to the distress arising from their pain and suffering, then go and ask at the hospitals, prisons and graveyards.

For sure, just as you will hear from most of the hospitals the moans and groans of those ill from dissipation and debauchery resulting from the drives of youth, so too will you hear from the prisons the regretful sighs of unhappy youths who are being punished for illicit actions mostly resulting from the excesses of youth. And you will understand that most of the torments of the grave that Intermediate Realm the doors of which continuously open and shut for those who enter it are the result of misspent youth, as is testified to by those who have divined the life of the grave, and is affirmed by the people of truth.

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