Getting Rid of Bad Companions and the Impact of Good Company
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Question:
This is a message received from a questioner for the program. He says: Honorable Shaykh, I have a friend, may Allah guide him, who has bad friends. He makes excuses for them, saying that no one is at home and that he is busy. He fears for himself that he is being a liar in this way. He wants to get rid of these bad companions. Honorable Shaykh, please tell us about that, and about good friends and their impact on the life of a Muslim?
Answer:
It is not permissible for a Muslim to keep the company of those who have a bad influence on his character or his religion, because Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, commanded us to keep the company of the righteous:[Al-Kahf 18:28] [Al-Kahf 18:28] Therefore, it is not permissible to keep the company of the wicked. A poet said: If you keep the company of a people, keep the company of the best of them, and do not keep the company of the worst, lest you fall with the worst. Another said: Do not ask about a man, but ask about his companion, for every companion is influenced by the one he keeps company with. And the least of them in falsehood will be in enmity with them on the Day of Resurrection. [Az-Zukhruf 43:67] As for the righteous, their intimacy remains in this world and the Hereafter. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good and bless you.
This is a message received from a questioner for the program. He says: Honorable Shaykh, I have a friend, may Allah guide him, who has bad friends. He makes excuses for them, saying that no one is at home and that he is busy. He fears for himself that he is being a liar in this way. He wants to get rid of these bad companions. Honorable Shaykh, please tell us about that, and about good friends and their impact on the life of a Muslim?
Answer:
It is not permissible for a Muslim to keep the company of those who have a bad influence on his character or his religion, because Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, commanded us to keep the company of the righteous:
And keep yourself patient [by being] with those who call upon their Lord in the morning and the evening, seeking His countenance. And let not your eyes pass beyond them, desiring adornments of the worldly life, and do not obey one whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance
وَاصْبِرْ نَفْسَكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ رَبَّهُم بِالْغَدَاةِ وَالْعَشِيِّ يُرِيدُونَ وَجْهَهُ وَلَا تَعْدُ عَيْنَاكَ عَنْهُمْ تُرِيدُ زِينَةَ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَلَا تُطِعْ مَنْ أَغْفَلْنَا قَلْبَهُ عَن ذِكْرِنَاand who follows his desire and whose affair is ever [in] neglect.
وَاتَّبَعَ هَوَاهُ وَكَانَ أَمْرُهُ فُرُطًاClose friends, that Day, will be enemies to each other, except for the righteous
الْأَخِلَّاءُ يَوْمَئِذٍ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ عَدُوٌّ إِلَّا الْمُتَّقِينَThe presenter:
May Allah reward you with good and bless you.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/170 — archive.org (2:49)
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