The Approaches of Da’wah in Helping the Social Problems Among the Adolescents and Its Applications by the Da’wah Organization in Malaysia

Abstract

Drastic social changes challenge the life of adolescents. An adolescent who are incapable of accommodating themselves, ends up in emotional stress and could cause them to involve in various social problems. Examples of social problems in Malaysia are drugs, gangsters, under age sexual activities, dropping out of schools and other negative behaviours. These problems eventually have been identified as social problems within the global community among the adolescent. The Muslim adolescents in the Islamic country is no exception too in facing these social problems. The social problems that grows within the adolescents need to be given serious attention and help to overcome it. If not, in the long run it will produce a society that practice and hold a negative values which is against the Islamic teaching. The purpose of this article is to discuss the factors of social problems among the adolescent and identify the da’wah approaches from the perspectives of Islam in handling it. The other important part of this article is giving recognitions to the da ‘wah organization in Malaysia who applied these da’wah approaches in their programmed toward the Islamic adolescents.