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               132  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 8 (28): 129-150, Autumn 2021
                  This  state  may  occur  in        saying and they postponed the
               some  adolescents  who  suffer        action - that is, they delayed it.
               from      a    complexity      of     They  are  various  groups  and
               incompetence and lack of self-        sects who differed determining
               confidence which often happens        the meaning of faith.
               to  adolescents  who  have  been         This  hadith  emphasizes  the
               denied  proper  education  in         initiative by the parents in the
               childhood. Hence, parents bear        sense  that  they  have  to  take

               the  great  responsibility  to  lay   responsibility for the education
               the    foundations     of   right     that  imam  called  talking  to
               education     since    childhood      them  and  instilling  principles
               before  the  child  is  influenced    and values before the teenager
               by  deviant  beliefs  that  stray     drifts  with  misguided  and
               from the right path.                  misguiding  currents.  At  this

                  Imam Sadiq was quoted as saying:   stage,  they  either  guide  the
                      “Hasten to your children       children  to  the  right  path  or
                      to  speak  before  The         they will be misled by several
                      Murji’ah precedes you”.        reasons, including educational,

                      (Kulayni, 1990, V. 6: 47)      psychological,  physical  and
                                                     social.  Some  of  them  may
                  Al-Irja’  in  language:  delay,    resort to addiction, which is a
               and in technical terms delaying       case of behavioral disorder.
               the action and taking it out of          An  addict  gets  used  to  a
               the reality of faith. Ibn Kathir      kind of drug, for example, and

               said  in  explaining  the  reason     finds  pleasure  and  imagines
               for calling the Murji’ah by this      that  it  is  a  kind  of  treatment
               name.  It  was  said  Murji’ah        that  relieves  him  even  though
               because  they  put  forward  the
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