Monday 16 April 2012

ADVICE/TIPS: Choosing The Right Friends

Choose Your Friends Wisely
(true friends v.s. 'wrong' friends)
Choose Your Friends Carefully

There Are Two Kinds of Good Friends:
1) Those Muslims who will lead you to Heaven
2) Those Muslims who will follow you to Heaven

YES:
1) Befriend a Muslim whom God (Allah) loves and who truly loves Allah, for the sake of Allah. Befriend a Muslim who can always advise you to fear Allah, a Muslim who keeps reminding you to do more good deeds, a Muslim who cares about how Allah sees them and never cares about the opinions of sinners.

2) Befriend a Muslim whom you feel you can be safe from their hands and tongue (verbal and non-verbal actions) for the sake of Allah.

It was narrated that the Messenger Muhammad (SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said that a (true) Muslim is one from whose hands and tongue (i.e. speech) the Muslims are safe. Allah knows best.

3) Befriend all of your Muslim relatives (including near and distant cousins) as that is also a means of maintaining close family ties/relations, for the sake of Allah.

There Are Two Kinds of Evil Friends:
1. Those who will lead you to Hell
2. Those who will follow you to Hell

NO:
1) Do not befriend a person of bad morals and evil character. Say to yourself, "If they're not 'GOOD' enough, then they really are not good enough to be my friend."

2) Do not befriend a person who, on their first weeks of getting to know you, insult or does something wrong to you or any of your family members. A person who offends you in their first meetings is most likely to prove disrespectful to you and/or to your loved ones in the future.

3) Of course, never befriend Satan (Shaytan) and his evil followers. Never befriend any of Satan's friends. Likewise, never befriend someone whom you know is working for someone who has bad motives against you.

Always note that whoever is a friend of God (Allah) will never feel alone, for why would a Muslim ever feel 'lonely' when he/she is a friend of the King of all 'kings', the Maker of all 'makers', the Owner of the whole universe and everything surrounding us, the Judge of all 'judges' and the Creator of the created. He/She who has Allah (as a friend) is lucky, while he/she who is cursed by Allah is most unfortunate that he/she is despised by God and His Angels.


Allah knows best.

Wasalaam

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