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Friendship

What is friendship?

Before you read on I would like you to answer the question yourself. If you asked me this question years ago I would have said “Friends are people that are there for you no matter what.” Recently my mindset has changed. A very inspirational woman told me in Palestine “If your friends don’t support you when you try to become closer to Allah, they are not really your friends.”
Friendship is supporting each other in religion. It is encouraging towards good and forbidding evil. On the Day of Judgement friends will run from each other if they have influenced each other in a negative manner. Friends should remind us of Allah. What use is a gathering of friends if it is devoid of the remembrance of Allah? A bad friend has been likened to a blacksmith whilst a good friend has been likened to a perfume seller. Some of the dirt may end up on your body from the blacksmith or some scent from the perfume seller.
If we have friends that use disgusting swear words and listen to music, we are also likely to do so. If we have friends that attend Islamic gatherings we are also likely to do so. I have a friend who tells me every time I see her to attend a Durood Shareef gathering. May Allah allow us to be surrounded by people that love Him.

“Hold fast to the company of the folk of piety. Through their gaze and through our love for them, may we be as one of them.”

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  1. ZakiyyahSeptember 19, 2018 at 10:28 AM

    Love it Sumi Apa, Awesome post šŸ’™

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  2. Tasneem BSeptember 19, 2018 at 12:24 PM

    This is so true. May Allah always keep us in the company of those who will bring us closer to Him & not take us away from Him. Aameen

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