The stage of patience:

The stage of adolescence can be called the stage of patience because during this stage the youth experience many physical, mental and emotional changes. The youth either control all these changes and are guided in the right direction to correctly utilize them and turn them into talents and resources which boost improvement, a spirit of achievement and other constructive purposes, causing this stage to pass peacefully. However, if they are neglected they turn into stormy winds which blow contrary to what the ships desire.



Adolescents experience a state of rapid and successive


physical, mental and emotional changes. When the adolescent interacts with the external environment -- friends and peers in particular -- they are mostly inclined to imitation and following their friends' stance to avoid being 'the odd-one-out'. If their friends and companions move in the wrong direction, the adolescent is required to be patient in order not to fall into their misguided ways along with them.

Adolescents are in dire need of worship and religiousness in their lives. Many psychological field studies indicate that male and female adolescents in different countries have this innate direction and inclination. Consequently, we observe that often, many adolescents hasten to perform acts of worship and different acts of obedience . However, sometimes, they do not continue doing so, mostly due to other external influences which surround the youth such as bad friends or a family which neither helps, nor cultivates, nor encourages piety. Therefore, an adolescent must be patient, give precedence to the Hereafter over this worldly pleasure and seek the reward of Allah The Almighty Who Says (what means): {But what is with Allah is better and more lasting.} [Quran 42: 36]