Islam

For
Teenagers

By
Abu Zayd Kamran Ali
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 INTRODUCTION
All praise is due to Allah, and Allah's Peace and Blessings
be upon His Final Messenger, his family, his noble
Companions, and all those who follow them with
righteousness until the Day of Judgment.

I have decided on ‘Islam For Teenagers’ as a title for the

present book. I felt a need to present this small but
informative book to our young readers for the purpose of
providing knowledge & rulings on several topics.

• Problems faced by teenagers in their daily lives.

• Questions asked by a lot of Muslim teenagers.
• Issues parents are hesitant or negligent to address.

My advice to every Muslim teenager is to make your

intention sincere, practice what you learn, do not kill
(waste) hours viewing corrupt media, listening to music,
gossiping and being lazy. Rather you should occupy your
time with the Kitaab of Allah, memorizing and reciting it.
Busy your life with beneficial knowledge, educational
family sittings and fruitful discussions.

I hope you will find value in reading this book. I've tried
to cover the important topics a Muslim teenager can easily
understand.

Author:
Abu Zayd Kamran Ali
Date: September 2, 2022
 Table of Contents
Arrogance ………. pg. 01
Backbiting & Slandering ………. pg. 05
Beard & Haircuts ………. pg. 09
Bullying ………. pg. 18
Clothing & Accessories ………. pg. 23
Companions & Friends ………. pg. 29
Cursing & Swearing ………. pg. 32
Drawing & Photography ………. pg. 35
Drug & Alcohol ………. pg. 39
Free Mixing ………. pg. 43
Games & Sports ………. pg. 46
How To Treat Your Parents ………. pg. 59
Imitating the Kuffaar ………. pg. 63
Lowering The Gaze ………. pg. 73
Manners & Character ………. pg. 78
Purification ………. pg. 99
Recitation & Memorization ………. pg. 102
Respect Your Elders ………. pg. 104
Salaah ………. pg. 106
Singing, Music & Dancing ………. pg. 110
Smoking ………. pg. 114
Social Media ………. pg. 117
Suicide ………. pg. 120
Tattoos ………. pg. 123
Vacations ………. pg. 125
Violent Behavior ………. pg. 128
GLOSSARY ………. pg. 131
 Arrogance

ARROGANCE
Definition: rejecting the truth and looking
down on people.

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Arrogance: A belief in one’s own greatness above the

people, and possession of virtue over them.

Self-conceit: Looking at one’s own actions and

becoming amazed by them; regarding them as great
and lofty.

So, self-conceit describes one’s actions while

arrogance describes one’s soul. Both traits are
dispraised.

Arrogance is of two types:

Arrogance toward the truth and
arrogance toward people.

The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬clarified both in his statement,

“Arrogance is to reject the truth and to

belittle the people”
Muslim collected it in Kitaabul Emaan under the chapter “The prohibition of
arrogance and its clarification”.
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The meaning behind the statement,

“reject the truth” is to discard it,
be averse to it, and to deny it; and the
meaning behind the statement, “belittle
the people” is to disparage and disdain
them, and deem people to be of no worth,
seeing oneself above them.
The Prophet’s ‫ ﷺ‬statement, “reject the truth” means
discarding the truth and not accepting it; because of
thinking highly of oneself and one’s opinion. He
views himself greater than the truth, Allah forbid. The
sign of such is that evidences from the Book and
Sunnah are brought before him yet he will not accept
them; instead persisting in his stubbornness. This is
the exact description of rejecting the truth, Allah
forbid.
Taken from the book:
The Prohibition of Arrogance & Self-Conceit
Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Saleh Al-Uthaymeen

Imaam ash-Shaafi’i said:

The person with the highest status (amongst the
people) is the one who does not see his status, and the
person with the most virtue is the one who does not
see his virtue.
Siyar 'Alaam an-Nubalaa 10/99.

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Yusuf bin Isbaat was asked: What is the height of

humility? He said: “You do not meet anyone except
that you consider him more virtuous than yourself.”
Siyar 'Alaam an-Nubalaa 9/170.

Ibn al-Qayyim said:

And from the signs of wellbeing and success is that
whenever the slave is increased in his knowledge, he
increases in humility and mercy; and whenever he is
increased in action, he increases in his fear and
caution; and whenever his age is increased, he
decreases in eagerness; and whenever he is increased
in wealth, he increases in his generosity and spending;
and whenever his status and honor is increased, he
increases in coming close to the people, in fulfilling
their needs and being humble in (their presence).

And the signs of wretchedness are: Whenever he is

increased in knowledge, he increases in pride and
haughtiness; and whenever he is increased in actions,
he increases in his boasting, mockery of the people
and having a good opinion of himself; and whenever
he is increased in his status and honor, he increases in
pride and haughtiness. These affairs of (wellbeing and
wretchedness) are a trial and a test from Allah, by
which He puts His slaves to trial. He brings about
wellbeing and wretchedness to a people by way of
these affairs.
Al-Fawaa-id. Page:228.

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 Backbiting & Slandering

BACKBITING & SLANDERING

Definition: to mention your brother (in his

absence) in a way he dislikes.

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 Backbiting & Slandering

Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬

said, “Do you know what backbiting is?” They said,
“Allah and his messenger know best.” The Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
said, “To mention your brother in a way
he dislikes.” It was said, “What do you think if
what I said about him is true?” The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬said,
“If what you say about him is true,
it is backbiting. If it is not true, it
is slander.”
Source: Saheeh Muslim, 2589.

Explanation:
As for Backbiting (Gheebah), then it is when you
mention something about a person (in his absence),
that he hates (to have mentioned), whether it is about:
His body, his religious characteristics, his worldly
affairs, his self, his physical appearance, his character,
his wealth, his child, his father, his wife, his servant,
his slave, his turban, his attire, his manner of walking,
his smile, his dissoluteness, his frowning, his
cheerfulness or anything else related to the above.
Likewise, it is the same whether you mention that
about him with words, through writings, or whether
you point or indicate him by gesturing with your eyes,
hand or head.

As for the body, then it is when you say: "he is blind",

"he limps", "he is bleary-eyed", "he is bald", "he is
short", "he is tall", "he is black", "he is yellow". As for
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his religious qualities, then it is when you say: "he is a

sinner", "he is a thief", "he is a betrayer", "he is an
oppressor", "he takes the prayer lightly", "he is lenient
with impurities", "he does not behave well towards
his parents", "he does not pay the Zakaah duly", and
"he does not avoid backbiting." As for the worldly
matters, then it is when you say: "he has poor
manners", "he's unmindful of people", "he does not
think that anyone has a right over him", "he talks too
much", "he eats and sleeps too much", "he sleeps at
the wrong times", "he sits in places he does not
belong in."

As for those matters connected with one’s parents,

then it is when you say: "his father is a sinner", "a
Nabatean", "a Negro", "a loafer", "a seedsman", "a
cattle dealer", "a carpenter", "a blacksmith", "a
weaver." As for his character, then it is when you say:
"he has bad manners", "he is arrogant", "he is
quarrelsome", "he is rash and hasty", "he is
tyrannical", "he is feeble", "he has a weak heart", "he
is irresponsible", "he is dismal", "he is dissolute", etc.
As for the garment: "it has wide sleeves", "it has short
hems", "what a filthy garment", and so on.
Book Source: Guarding the Tongue
By Imaam Al-Nawawi

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Some of the most common remarks

we hear around us:

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He’s a
Coward
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Th Class He’s an Idio
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Allah, the Exalted, says: “Not a word does

he (or she) utter but there is a watcher by
him ready (to record it).”
[Surah Qaaf, verse 18]

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 GLOSSARY

Aayah: pl. aayaat. Sign, miracle, example, lesson, verse.

Abd: pl. ebaad. slave, servant, worshipper.
Adhaan: the call to prayer.
Bid‘ah: innovation, that which is newly introduced into the
religion of Allah.
Da‘eef: weak. A hadeeth that has failed to meet the criteria of
authenticity.
Deen: religion, way of life.
Dhaalim: one who commits dhulm: injustice, harm,
transgression either against Allah, himself or another creation.
Dhikr: remembrance, making mention of Allah.
Du‘aa: supplication, invocation.
Eemaan: faith that also comprises a meaning of submission.
Its place is the heart, the tongue and the limbs and it increases
with obedience and decreases with disobedience.
Faqeeh: pl. fuqahaa: an expert in Islamic law, a Legal Jurist.
Fard: see waajib.
Fasaad: corruption, decay, and invalidity.
Fatwa: pl. fataawa: legal ruling.
Fiqh: understanding and comprehension of the rulings and
legislation of Islam.
Fisq: pl. fusooq: Immorality, transgression, wickedness.

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Fitnah: pl. fitan: trial, tribulation, civil strife.
Fitrah: primordial nature, the harmony between man, creation
and Creator.
Ghayb: the Unseen, those matters beyond our senses.
Haafidh: pl. huffaadh: Hadeeth Master, commonly referred to
one who has memorized at least 100,000 ahaadeeth.
Hadeeth: pl. ahaadeeth: speech, report. A narration describing
the sayings, actions, character, physical description and tacit
approval of the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬.
Hajj: pilgrimage, one of the pillars of Islam.
Halaal: permissible.
Haraam: forbidden, sacred, restricted. Unlawful, that which
the legally responsible person is rewarded for leaving and sinful
for doing.
Hasan: good: a hadeeth that has met the criteria of
authenticity to a sufficient level as would allow it to be used as
legal proof.
Ijtihaad: striving and exerting: striving to attain the Islamic
ruling on an issue, after certain preconditions have been met
by the person.
Imaam: model, religious leader, one who leads the
congregational prayer or leads a community.
Isnaad: chain of narration.
Jaahiliyyah: Pre-Islamic Ignorance. Technically this refers to
the condition of a people before the guidance of Allah reaches
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accepting the guidance of Allah.
Janaabah: state of major impurity.
Janaazah: funeral prayer, funeral procession.
Jihaad: striving in the way of Allah to make His Word
supreme.
Jinn: another creation besides mankind who are invisible to us.
They are also subject to the laws of Islam and will be judged in
the Hereafter according to how they lived in this life.
Kaafir: a rejecter of faith, disbeliever.
Khateeb: one who delivers lectures, one who delivers the
Friday sermon.
Khawf: fear.
Khutbah: sermon, lecture, Friday sermon.
Mufassir: pl. mufassiroon: Exegete, commentator, one who
explains the Qur'aan.
Muhaajir: pl. muhaajiroon: One who performs hijrah. The
Companions who migrated from Makkah to Madeenah.
Muhaddith: pl. muhaddithoon: Scholar of Hadeeth.
Muhkam: clear and definitive. An aayah of the Qur'aan that
carries a clear and conclusive meaning.
Mujtahid: one who performs ijtihaad. That level of scholar
who can deduce independent verdicts directly from the
primary Islamic sources.

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Mustahabb: recommended, that which a legally responsible
person is rewarded for doing but not sinful for leaving.
Mukallaf: morally responsible person.
Mulhid: heretic.
Munaafiq: hypocrite, one who outwardly displays Islam but
inwardly conceals disbelief. This is the worst type of hypocrisy
and its possessor is the worst type of disbeliever, there are
other lesser types.
Qadar: Allah's decree of all matters in accordance with His
prior knowledge and as dictated by His wisdom.
Qiblah: direction to which the Muslims pray, towards the
ka‘bah.
Qiyaas: Analogy.
Riyaa: an act of worship undertaken by someone to be seen
and praised by others and not purely for Allah.
Ruqyaa: recitation used to cure an illness or disease. It can
only be done in the Arabic tongue, in words whose meaning is
understood, using verses of the Qur'aan or supplications of the
Prophet combined with the belief that it is only Allah who in
reality gives the cure.
Sabr: patience, steadfastness.
Saheeh: healthy, sound, authentic, correct. A hadeeth that has
met the criteria of authenticity and can be used as a legal proof.
Salaah: the second pillar of Islam, the prayer.

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Salaf: predecessors, commonly employed to refer to the first
three generations of Muslims.
Sawm: fasting, one of the pillars of Islam.
Shahaadah: testification, witness. The declaration that none
has the right to be worshipped save Allah and that Muhammad
‫ ﷺ‬is the Messenger of Allah.
Sharee'ah: divine Islamic law as ordained by Allah.
Shareek: partner, associate.
Shaykh: old man, learned person, scholar.
Shaytaan: Satan, Iblees, a devil.
Shirk: polytheism, associating partners with Allah in matters
that are exclusive to Allah.
Sunan: a compilation of ahaadeeth.
Sunnah: habit, customary practice, norm and usage as
sanctioned by tradition. The sayings, commands, prohibitions,
actions, and tacit approvals of the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬.
Surah: chapter of the Qur'aan.
Taaghoot: all that is falsely worshipped besides Allah.
Tafseer: elucidation, clarification, explanation of the Qur'aan.
Tawakkul: trust and absolute reliance.
Tawheed: the foundation stone of Islam, the absolute belief
in the Oneness of Allah - His being the sole Creator and
Sustainer, His being the only One deserving worship and His
being unique with respect to His Names and Attributes.
Ummah: nation, the Muslim nation.
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Waajib: obligatory that which a legally responsible person is
rewarded for doing and sinful for leaving. In the eyes of the
majority waajib has the same meaning as fard.
Wudu: ritual ablution.
Zakaah: one of the pillars of Islam, an obligatory tax levied on
a Muslim wealth subject to certain criteria.
Zuhd: asceticism.

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