1) Young Muslims - The Message

is not noticed by his left hand and a man who remembers Allah insolitude till his eyes water."None of us are immune to contemporary challenges especially withthe widespread use of intoxicants and narcotic drugs which is illegalin the eyes of the Sacred Law.Ibn Hajar in his al-Zawajr 'an iqtiraf al-Khabair has discussed theimpermissible nature of such drugs as hashish, opium, henbane,etc., substances which are not ritually impure (najs).He cites the Messenger of Allah (Blessings and Peace be upon him)as saying:"Every intoxicant is prohibited." [Bukhari & Muslim]And his (Blessings and Peace be upon him) saying,"That which intoxicates in large quantities is prohibited in smallquantities." [Abu Dawud, Tirmithi, Ibn Majah, and others, with asound chain of narrators]So here there is no need to doubt the illicit nature of such modernnarcotics like cocaine, heroine, etc. or such soft drugs that areavailable in the club scenes, places, unfortunately, visitedfrequently by Muslim youth in the West.What I would like to draw our attention to though is how we valueourselves. Perhaps when we as Muslims, even sinful Muslims,realize the value that Allah the Exalted has given us, perhaps it willbe then that we will value our individual selves: physically andspiritually.Allah the Exalted states:"We have created man in the best of forms, then We have loweredYoung Muslims, What they should know about Islam Page - 185