Subject: [Masjid Tucson] Submission weekly reminder

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Peace be upon you,

Young Submitters to God experience peer pressure when Quranic moral values clash with the behavioral "norms" of other youth. If you want to fit in there is a pressure to use drugs, alcohol, bad language, or to dress immodestly. Those who choose to follow God's laws are ostracized as being "boring" or "old-fashioned".

Peer pressure isn't a recent phenomenon that belongs only to our generation or limited to the youth. We see at the time of Abraham:

     Social Pressure: A Profound Disaster
[Quran 29:25] He said, "You worship beside GOD powerless idols due to peer pressure, just to preserve some friendship among you in this worldly life. But then, on the Day of Resurrection, you will disown one another, and curse one another. Your destiny is Hell, wherein you cannot help one another."



Social pressure to sin continues into adulthood. If we have to make a choice between God and our friends, do we always choose God?


References:
Peer Pressure and the Submitter Youth, http://www.masjidtucson.org/publications/books/sp/2005/mar/page2.html
Virginity/Chastity: A Trait of the True Believers, http://www.masjidtucson.org/quran/appendices/appendix34.html
Drugs & Alcohol, http://www.masjidtucson.org/quran/appendices/appendix35.html
Road To Happiness: Seek to Please God, http://www.masjidtucson.org/submission/perspectives/happiness/roadtohappiness.html


Peace.