{"id":2583,"date":"2020-09-25T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2020-09-25T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:21:24","slug":"bad-companions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/bad-companions\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Companions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Companions can have different levels of positive or negative\ninfluence, but the common factors of being considered a bad companion is being\ndistant from Allah SWT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do we know this? Their actions testify to this. Ask\nyourself, are your companions displaying these actions. Examples of these can\nbe: not praying, waste\ntime talking about others, make fun of others, encouraging you to commit sin.\nWorse still, are you a bad companion to others as this is also something that\nwill work against your account with Allah SWT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The imam\nreferenced Sura Al-Furqan in which Allah SWT warns us of this. It is translated\nto say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the Day the wrongdoer will\nbite on his hands [in regret] he will say, “Oh, I wish I had taken with\nthe Messenger a way. Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a\nfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear brothers, we need to be careful as the impact our\nfriends have, both in person and nowadays online, is something that we cannot\nunderestimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prophet SAWS also taught us the importance of this. The\nimam relayed the following ahadith which is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I heard the Prophet (\ufdfa) saying,\n“The similitude of good company and that of bad company is that of the\nowner of musk and of the one blowing the bellows. The owner of musk would\neither offer you some free of charge, or you would buy it from him, or you\nsmell its pleasant fragrance; and as for the one who blows the bellows (i.e.,\nthe blacksmith), he either burns your clothes or you smell a repugnant\nsmell”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And dear brothers, in this time and place we live in there\nis this warning also from our beloved leader SAWS who said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 “Man follows his\nfriend’s religion, you should be careful who you take for friends”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so dear brothers we need to be conscious of this and so\nthe reminder concludes with the following tips on this reminder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Do not be in the same place as these companions.\nThat includes both online in social media groups, WhatsApp groups etc as well\nas physically in person. These days we discount the impact of online groups\nbecause it\u2019s not physical. However, we are now being told by psychiatrists that\nthe effects of this just as severe, if not more so, that being physically\naround these people.<\/li>
  2. Take a look at the interests, passions and\nhobbies of those who you are around. Is there focus and effort in things that\nbring them closer to Allah SWT or the opposite? If it\u2019s the latter then\ninevitably the effect will be on you.<\/li>
  3. It is important to guide your friends away from\na path that takes them away from Allah SWT. However, you must be careful that\nthe attempts to do so don\u2019t bring you closer to their path and their ways of\nbeing? Your intentions might be good but so is the lure of the path of Shaitaan\nand so be wise to this effect and don\u2019t let your good intentions result in\nfalling into the trap.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Dear brothers, strength comes from unity with one another.\nLet us use this reminder to assess our relationships and strengthen those that\nbring us closer to Allah SWT and His path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Companions can have different levels of positive or negative influence, but the common factors of being considered a bad companion is being distant from Allah SWT. How do we know this? Their actions testify to this. Ask yourself, are your companions displaying these actions. Examples of these can be: not praying, waste time talking about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[369,316],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon","tag-bad-company","tag-companions"],"blocksy_meta":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}