A Woman’s Companionship with Non-Religious Women
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Our sister also asks Your Eminence about her friends whom she describes as not being committed to the religion. She says: If I want to travel, should I bid them farewell and ask for their forgiveness, or not?
Answer: If they are friends and are good in their religion, then bidding them farewell and advising them to do good, and their advising you to do good as well, all of this is good; because the believers are brothers.. as He, the Exalted and Majestic, said: [Surat al-Tawbah: 71].
So they are sisters in Allah. If you bid them farewell and ask them to make du'a' for you, and you make du'a' for them and advise them to do good, all of this is good.
However, if they are doing something that makes them disbelievers, such as abandoning the prayer, or mocking the religion, or insulting the religion, or openly declaring their open sinfulness and disbelief, or adopting the religion of atheism, then it is not permissible to befriend them, nor to bid them farewell, nor to consider them friends. Rather, you must hate them for the sake of Allah and oppose them for the sake of Allah if they are disbelievers, either by adopting the communist ideology, or by adopting the polytheistic ideology, such as calling upon the dead and seeking aid from the dead, like Al-Idris and others, or by insulting the religion and mocking the religion. With these actions, they become disbelievers.
However, if they are Muslim women who affirm the oneness of Allah, but they have some sins, then the matter is broad in this regard. If you bid them farewell, there is nothing wrong with it, and if you leave them, there is nothing wrong with it; the matter is broad in this regard; except if they are openly declaring their open sinfulness, such as zina and drinking intoxicants. In the case of such women, it is recommended to leave bidding them farewell and leaving their companionship, even if they are Muslims; because they are displaying open sinfulness and sins. Such women deserve to be boycotted and not taken as friends, so that the closeness to them and befriending them does not harm you. We ask Allah for you success and guidance, and we ask Allah for them rectitude and success.
Answer: If they are friends and are good in their religion, then bidding them farewell and advising them to do good, and their advising you to do good as well, all of this is good; because the believers are brothers.. as He, the Exalted and Majestic, said:
The believing men and believing women are allies of one another
وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتُ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضٍSo they are sisters in Allah. If you bid them farewell and ask them to make du'a' for you, and you make du'a' for them and advise them to do good, all of this is good.
However, if they are doing something that makes them disbelievers, such as abandoning the prayer, or mocking the religion, or insulting the religion, or openly declaring their open sinfulness and disbelief, or adopting the religion of atheism, then it is not permissible to befriend them, nor to bid them farewell, nor to consider them friends. Rather, you must hate them for the sake of Allah and oppose them for the sake of Allah if they are disbelievers, either by adopting the communist ideology, or by adopting the polytheistic ideology, such as calling upon the dead and seeking aid from the dead, like Al-Idris and others, or by insulting the religion and mocking the religion. With these actions, they become disbelievers.
However, if they are Muslim women who affirm the oneness of Allah, but they have some sins, then the matter is broad in this regard. If you bid them farewell, there is nothing wrong with it, and if you leave them, there is nothing wrong with it; the matter is broad in this regard; except if they are openly declaring their open sinfulness, such as zina and drinking intoxicants. In the case of such women, it is recommended to leave bidding them farewell and leaving their companionship, even if they are Muslims; because they are displaying open sinfulness and sins. Such women deserve to be boycotted and not taken as friends, so that the closeness to them and befriending them does not harm you. We ask Allah for you success and guidance, and we ask Allah for them rectitude and success.
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