Will the modern youth and eroding social values bring about the downfall of man?

The youth today are so subservient in the sense of expecting everything to be handed down to them on a silver platter within a second. Its a fast life, nothing will come close. In this day and age, society is not advancing...what, wielding modern technology make us superior? If this was the case, why didn`t the dynastic kingdoms of the great Ancient Egypt, Rome or Mongol not last? Certainly they had the best modern technology available in their day, so why didn`t it help their survival? Why did their combined thousands of years of recorded history and kingdoms end? Well, its all due to the tainting of society. once society gets tainted and deluded into the vices of men from their utter ignorance, it surely befits the downfall of that society and people.

Nowadays we are high on cloud nine, with the latest cutting edge technology at our disposal and fingertips, the latest apple products, computers, cars....etc and the list goes on, but why is our society in decline. Sure some may say how advanced you marks the level of success for society but what good is it when people have lost their morals, character and respect for one another. There is rampant eroding of our basic social values. Where can people say they are truly living in a bliss, no they can`t.

Every society in recorded history led the downfall of the empire. History ALWAYS repeats itself, its like a continuum for us humans here on Earth. No matter how much you learn from it, (which we rarely do anyway), history repeats itself. You may be able to alter it but nevertheless with human nature, it does not change for the overall masses. The silent majority within society is slowly rising up to speak out to the injustices of the majority populous who are truly in ignorant bliss. They will do, believe and behave whatever is said to them, shown to them and shoved down their throats with no hesitation upon the consequences.

Do we humans think, we can outlive one another and the Earth? We walk upon the Lord`s Earth with such pride and arrogance like there is no tomorrow. Its amazing to think we humans who are truly so insignificant walk upon this Earth so haughty to another, but we all will surely die and go to the same grave. Its the dirt that finally shuts up the son of Adam. There is nothing as definite as death in this life, but we never give a fleeting concern or attention.

There is no point in fighting and competing with people of this world over this world. Why compete over material things. Because this world is small and our desires are large, nothing can satisfy this desire of human beings. Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (peace be upon him) said, 'if the son of Adam had a valley of gold, he would request another one and nothing would please the son of Adam, nothing would shut him up except dirt. Nothing would satisfy this greed except the dirt.' When you go back to the dirt that would close and terminate all of your desires.

This youth who are to be future leaders of this world are just subservient pawns on this game of life, who have no sense of responsibility, self morals or characters. How do you sell yourself out like that, easily just like that? We so painstakingly try to 'fit in' in this society with the current fashion, trends, lifestyles, always submitting to 'other people demands' and never your own, why is that, why do that? We never do anything on our won but to appease others in how we dress, talk, behave and on and on it goes. We truly lost our self identity and character, just became a giant billboard for the wishes and wants of others.

We human are capable for so much good, but yet we delve into our past and inner selves to sow the seeds of destruction of our fellow man and the world. We are always so quick to destroy rather rebuild or cure, why is that? Does this destructive nature coarse through the veins of the son of Adam or hardwired into our DNA?

This present society with its eroding social values and unsocial conduct is becoming the times reminiscent of the Bible when the Lord sent His curse and punishment upon mankind for their debauchery and ways. We don`t look around us, that the earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, natural disasters, killings...etc have all increased vastly but no one connects the dots. Are we that bind we can`t see the signs? Or we are too proud to see them and just ignore them outright?

I pray to the good Lord above to give us HIs mercy and guidance. Without it there is no respite, no shadow of a chance to be successful in the afterlife. We take religion for granted but if the dead could speak, they would be testament to the effects of the afterlife and how we squander our time here in this life. This like which is so temporary, fleeting by, yet we prepare for it, plan for it, and decorate as if no tomorrow.

We treat this life as the ultimate thing and nothing beyond it. Yet we humans claim to know such great knowledge no nothing in reality, essentially nothing, we can`t comprehend it. For all we know, it does not even compare, not a drop in the bucket compared to the good Lord. Yet we deny Him? Deny HIs miracles and favors to you?

We humans are truly below the animals in comprehension, for even they don`t deny the existence of their Lord and praise Him always. We humans through our own actions and consequences sow our own destruction and seal our fate. But there is always time to do good and praise your Lord for you never know when it will be your last.

"Tension, depression and frustration has become the order of the day...happiness, joy and prosperity has become something of the past"

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State of the Muslim youth


Published on Jul 19, 2012 by MOTIVE ISLAM
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Teenagers 'sexting' nude pics far more than previously thought

Nearly a third of teenagers have 'sexted' nude photos of themselves - and 57% have been harassed to send pictures

• Teenagers who 'sext' are more likely to have sex
• Female teenagers feel 'harassed' to send pictures
• Far higher than previous estimates
• Practice is modern version of 'You show me mine...'

By ROB WAUGH
DAILY MAIL
July 3, 2012

Smartphone risk: A study in American
schools found that a third of teenagers
had sent a nude picture of themselves,and 
57% had been asked to.

Image Credit: DailyMail

Teenagers are 'sexting' nude pictures of themselves far more than previously thought.
A study in American schools found that close to a third of teenagers had sent a nude picture of themselves, and 57% had been asked to.

Teenagers who engaged in 'sexting' were also more likely to have sex.

Researchers claim that 'sexting' via email or text has become a modern version of 'You show me mine, I'll show me yours.'

The alarming figures are in contrast to previous studies which have estimated that a mere 1% of teenagers had sent naked pictures.

But the new study is much larger, and, researchers suspect, more accurate.

Researchers surveying nearly 1,000 students at seven schools in southeast Texas found that 28 percent of adolescents have sent a nude pictures of themselves through electronic means; more than half (57 percent) have been asked to send a nude picture; and about one-third (31 percent) have asked for a nude picture to be sent to them.

These rates are substantially higher than recently published peer-reviewed data suggesting that only a little more than one percent of teens had sent naked pictures.

[...]

Moreover, teen girls — but not boys — who engaged in sexting had a higher prevalence of risky sexual behaviors, including multiple partners and using drugs or alcohol before sex.

Jeff Temple, UTMB assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, believes this gender difference may be attributed at least in part to social beliefs about sexting, particularly that it may be perceived permissively and positively for boys and thus, not considered risky or to be associated with other dangerous behaviors.

Girls, on the other hand, may be perceived as promiscuous if they sext. If willing to risk reputation, they may be inclined to take other risks as well...

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O` youth, beware of your sexual desires - a horrible path of shamelessness

Sexual Desires - Nouman Ali Khan - Quran Weekly
Published on Apr 24, 2012 by QuranWeekly



In this video, Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan tackles a few issues that are related to shamelessness. Through verses of the Qur'an, he explains how much Allah dislikes zina, adultery, sexual promiscuity, looking at the haram (forbidden), and not lowering our gaze.

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Mother claims 'genetic attraction' not incest with 16 year old son

Mom who made sex tape with son, 16, is jailed for four years... but says it was just a case of 'genetic attraction' after they were reunited after 15 years apart
By DAILY MAIL
June 22, 2012

A woman who made a sex tape with her teenage son after they were reunited after 15 years apart claims their relationship was not incest - but a case of 'genetic attraction'.

Mistie Rebecca Atkinson, 32, was sentenced to four years and eight months behind bars in Napa County Superior Court, California on Wednesday.

It came after she was found in a Ukiah, California motel room with the 16-year-old boy, who had recorded his mother giving him oral sex on his phone.

  
Sick: Mistie Atkinson, 32, (pictured left in her police mug shot and right on Facebook) has been convicted of incest after having sex with her son, 16 - but she claims it was a case of 'genetic attraction'

Authorities also recovered nude photos Atkinson had sent him after tracking him down through Facebook. She had not seen him for 15 years.

But in a letter to the court, Atkinson, claimed she did not consider it incest, the Napa Valley Register reported.

'I don't feel like I should have the charge of incest because there is something called genetic attraction that is a very powerful [phenomenon] that happens to 50 [per cent] of people becoming reunited with a long-lost relative,' she wrote.

Little research has been carried out on genetic sexual attraction. But some psychologists say family members who are separated for a long time could become sexually attracted to each other when they meet as adults...

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