ANNOUNCEMENT ON YOUTH SEMINAR TO BE HELD IN DSM ON
6th & 13th Oct 2002

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
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Mini Seminar For Community Youths

A Subject of its kind, the first ever in the series,  will be discussed by the Youth (boys and girls) of the Community in Dar es Salaam on the Sundays of 6th and 13th October, 2002.

SUBJECT: Seven Facts of the Reality of Life Which Can Make a Difference in the Adult Life If Youth Get to Know them while they are still Youth. The Seven Facts are shown in this Message.

The Subject will be introduced by Alhaj Mohammed A. Khalfan.

The sessions will take place in the Zainabiyya Hall, Asia Street and the programme for the session is as follows:

        10.30 a.m.            Recitation of the verses from the Qur'an and Translation.

        10.45 a.m.            Refreshment

        11.00 a.m.            Introduction of each of the Seven Facts followed by
                                   discussion.

        12.15 p.m.            Session Ends.

The Sessions are organised by the Tabligh Centre of the Khoja Shia Ithna-asheri Jamaat of Dar es Salaam. The contact address for registration is given at the end of this message.

Very Important: Parents who receive this message are requested to bring it to the attention of their sons and daughters. 

Teachers of Madaris and Schools can also join the programme.

Seven Facts of the Reality of Mortal Life which Youth Must be made Aware of While They are still Youth to Make a Difference in the Future Course of their Life and Spare them a later Rue & Regret.

Fact Number One: Youth do not realise until much later while they are no longer youth that this Life is only a Fleeting Moment. They wish, when wiser, that they could turn the clock back and relive the youth age fruitfully. Later lamentation is an agony and has its negative consequences. How fleeting is this mortal life?

Fact Number Two: The school Syllabus is always for students of a normal (average) intelligence. Each and every student is "bright" by his/her own right if only he/she chooses to be so and also to be seen so in the society. The ignorance of this fact exacts a heavy toll on the youth. How heavy is the toll?

Fact Number Three: For the benefits to be reaped (harvested) in life, the season for sowing (planting) is only during the youth age, and it runs its course very fast. This demands priorities to be set right and followed like one executes a battle plan. What are the right priorities?

Fact Number Four: There is a group-thinking and behaviour with a risk of a loss of a grip over the rationality of an individual mind when youth move about in a group and think as a group. Youth later in life suffer remorse for the wrong decisions and mis-behaviour and their consequences. They wish they had a prior warning!.

Fact Number Five: There are youth who are seen to mature mentally and visionary faster than others while still youth and this has no connection with the degrees of intelligence. What can be the reason?

Fact Number Six: The perception of this world to the youth is "rosy and cozy" which is indeed so on the thin surface. They later in life see the mass of the reality under the surface as being "cold and cruel" in terms of the trials and tribulations to which mankind is subject. They wish that they had known it earlier. How much cold and cruel?

Fact Number Seven: Youth think that they make a full use of the natural human capacity of thinking. They do not, because often their parents too do not. What are common examples?
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