Youth is the hope of our future. If anything wrong penetrates and progresses in them the entire equilibrium will get disturbed the blooming environment would turn out to be a cemetery. A few months back, I was frolicking towards the tehsil office. I had urgent work. When I reached I saw a teary-eyed old lady outside the Tehsildar office in the queue waiting for her turn to meet Tehsildar. When I came near to her and asked what is the reason behind her distraught and pangs. She was draped in the tear of the ocean. As I heard from her she had come there to plead before the Tehsildar Sahab to arrest her son. I was numb for some time, how could a mother scathe her own Son? It seemed a bizarre but a tangible story as well. A mother always a savior to her children was taking such an unanticipated move. This seemed to be a confounding and arcane step. But when I heard the rest of the ordeal from that elderly woman that her son had been taking drugs for the past few years. He was trying to sell the ancestral property to get drugs from himself. He had already sold his mother’s jewellery even the utensils of the kitchen of his home. This is not the only story there are numerous such heart-wrenching incidents where youth are indulged in drug abuse. We have been witnessing an alarming increase in drug abuse among youngsters. The Kashmir that is considered to be the pious land is now also turned out to be the hub of the drug business-like in the other states of India. Drug abuse has become a noxious and creating incendiary scenario. The cadence of moral values among youth seems on the verge of destruction. This addiction is permeating like a wildfire.

There are multiple reasons why youth are involved in the drug menace. One of the reasons might be the lack of parental involvement and easy money available to the children. Since the home is the first school and the parents are the first teachers that inculcate moral values in a child this later on helping him to differentiate between good and bad. If a child is imbibed with the teachings of Islam he/she could never indulge in such type of menaces. Islam unfolds a solution to every problem. There are many narrations of the last messenger of Allah (PBUH) which state alcohol is entirely prohibited and is the mother of all evils; whoever falls into this sin, will lead him into other evil actions.
Allah (SWT) says, “O you believe! intoxicants, gambling, Al –Ansab (Stone altars for sacrificing to idols), and Al- Azam (arrows for seeking luck or decision) are evils of satan creation.
Another factor that is responsible for the rise in this menace is the Indian film industry which romanticizes the issue of drug use which lures the young generation. Nowadays most of the youth have made the film industry celebrities as their role models following their attire, way of living, and even their hairstyle. But unfortunately, this industry has become a hub of drug menace. Recently the glistened star Sushant Singh Rajput was cruising in the same abuse and finally ended his life. These things always brought an adverse impact on the viewers. The movies like Kabir Singh (2009) whose nasty script drench and enfold the dirty stuff among youth brains like consuming drugs, alcoholism, and adultery
Rightly said by the Shair –e-Mashriq Allama Iqbal (R.A)
“Yahe Daras deta hai hume har shaam ka suraj
Maghrib ke taraf javoge tou dhoob javoge”
The drug menace has become incontinent. If we don’t wake up today, it may be too late tomorrow. This is clamorous but nobody is ready to listen. The need of the hour is to collectively tackle this issue that is the emerging threat that will swallow the youth and prove detrimental for the future. Administration, police, religious organizations, NGOs, the Schools should come forward to combat this menace to curb this ongoing menace.
Again quoting the Allama Iqbal (R.A)
“Apne mann mein dhob kar paja suraage zindagi
Tou agar mera nahi banta na bann apna tou bann”

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