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76 •. . . 4 There are mosques with young missionaries who are themselves keen on sports and attract youngsters. This has resulted positively in youngsters coming to mosques at least twice daily for salat and mosques are filled. It is, therefore, wrong to criticize that halls adjacent to mosques provide sports facilities and gather youngsters, or that food is served at functions in the mosques and attracts people and that is why people come to offer Salat. It is also clear from the practice of the Promised Messiah (as) that this can take place and there is nothing wrong in it. (September 18, 2015). 5 These days children are informed of certain immoralities in schools in the name of education. Our nizam needs to actively inform children and youngsters of the reality. Parents need to be mindful of their own condition and educate themselves about the harms of the information which is given to children in the name of education in schools … Parental models and surrounding models are mostly bad, rather than good. Thus, missionaries, officeholders of auxiliary organizations and parents, all have to make joint effort to arrange for correct information, as opposed to incorrect information, to be disseminated. We cannot stop the way things are done in schools and we cannot interfere. However, by identifying to our children what is foul and immoral, we can take them in confidence and show them our own good role models and save them from the effect of the environment. May God enable all of us to perform our obligations in a good manner! (January 24, 2014). 6 The missionaries, murabbis and officeholders do not discuss these things [what to do and what not to do, etc. ] in a manner that they need to be presented and, as a consequence, questions arise in the minds of some - but they do not ask these questions. This is especially the case with the youth. They feel that the people or their elders or parents or the officeholders will consider their asking these questions to be something bad, or they will become involved in some difficulty as a result. The fact of the matter should, of course, have been that they should