Friendship is one of the main needs of human social life. Photo: File
Islam is a religion in which Allah Ta’ala has made rules and laws for all areas of life considering all the needs of human beings and likewise considering every aspect of individual, family and social life. has presented
One of the most important needs of human social life is to establish relationships with other human beings, and when a person establishes relationships with the people around him, he will definitely have a deep connection with someone. Proximity and deep contact is also remembered as friendship in our society, as if friendship is one of the main needs of human social life.
Therefore, the religion of Islam has guided the human beings and especially the Muslims in a good way in relation to this relationship and has arranged a torch for them.
The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, Meaning: “A believer is full of affection and love, and there is no good or quality in a person who neither loves others nor is others to love him.” Holy Prophet ﷺ loved his friends and companions i.e. the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) very much and showed compassion to such an extent that everyone felt that the Holy Prophet ﷺ wanted him the most.
The standard of friendship in Islam is love, piety and piety to Islam because a human being naturally has friendship with those who are like-minded, that’s why there is a famous saying that a man is known by his friends.
Being together and spending time with friends is the name of life, if there is no sacrifice, sacrifice and love in friendship, then it is like a flower, but there is no fragrance in it, hatred and aversion to friends. Traps a person in such a swamp of loneliness in which he remains confined throughout his life, when a person lives together with friends and participates in every matter, as a result, sometimes he suffers various kinds of pain. They arrive.
Sometimes his feelings are hurt, so different kinds of tortures and pains reach him, when a person endures these tortures, a place is created in his heart, good morals develop in him. The highest qualities of tolerance, sacrifice, love, compassion and bravery are born.
The Holy Prophet ﷺ said, meaning: “He who lives in close company with the Muslim people and endures their suffering is far better than the person who lives isolated from the people and suffers from them. (Tirmidhi)
The meaning of the Holy saying of the Prophet ﷺ is: “A man is on the religion of his friend, so every man should consider whom he is making friends with.” (Musnad Ahmad Mishkwat)
The meaning of being on the religion of a friend is that when he sits in the company of a friend, the same feelings and thoughts and the same tastes and inclinations will arise in him that are in the friend and the same quality of likes and dislikes will also become in him. It belongs to his friend, so one should be very careful in choosing a friend and one should increase the heart’s attachment to him whose tastes and inclinations, thoughts and ideas are in accordance with the requirements of religion and faith. The Holy Prophet ﷺ emphasized that you should build a relationship of love with the believer and have your food and drink with him.
It is a blessed saying of the Prophet ﷺ that you should be in the company of your loved ones and let only the pious eat at your table.
The Holy Prophet (PBUH) described the relationship between a good and a bad friend in an eloquent parable, meaning: “The example of a good and a bad friend is like that of a blacksmith who sells musk and smokes a furnace.” The company of the musk seller will surely bring you some benefit. Either you will buy musk or you will smell the pleasure of musk, but the blacksmith’s furnace will burn your clothes or its smell will enter your mind.” (Bukhari)
Hazrat Imran bin Hattan says that one day I went to the mosque and Hazrat Abu Dhar was sitting there alone with a chador. I said: O Abu Dharr! Why is this isolation adopted? He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, saying that solitude is better than the company of bad friends, and the company of good people is better than solitude, and speaking good words is better than silence, while silence is better than speaking evil. “
(Sha’ab al-Iman for Bayhaqi)
It is narrated on the authority of Hazrat Anas that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, meaning: “The Holy Qur’an is more excellent than anyone else. In fact, he disrespected the right of Allah Almighty” (Tafseer al-Qurtubi).
In the Holy Qur’an, Allah Almighty says, meaning: “O you who believe! Fear Allah and be with the truthful people.” The quality of today’s friendships is no longer goodness and piety.
Worldly interests, indecent gatherings, bloodshed and places of sin have become the standard of friendship, where people gather to pass the time where they gossip, backbite, slander, hurt each other and confess their sins to each other. Proudly presented in front.
From these blessed hadiths, it is known that a good friend is a great blessing of Allah Almighty who leaves the positive effects of his love on all aspects of another friend’s life and a bad friend is nothing less than the punishment of Allah Almighty that his presence is It distorts a good character and friendship should be done only for the pleasure of Allah Almighty and not for personal gain. On the Day of Leadership when there will be no shade except the shade of the Throne of God.
Among the people who will be blessed with the shadow of the Throne of God on that day, one type of people will be those two men who will be friends to each other only for the sake of God Almighty, the love of God Almighty will have connected them together and on this basis. They will separate from each other. May Allah grant the success of the action. Amen
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