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Be Careful of This Regret
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Allah ﷻ says in Surah Al-Furqan:
يَٰوَيْلَتَىٰ لَيْتَنِى لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلَانًا خَلِيلًۭا
Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a close friend.
لَّقَدْ أَضَلَّنِى عَنِ ٱلذِّكْرِ بَعْدَ إِذْ جَآءَنِى
Certainly he misguided me away from the remembrance after it came to me
وَكَانَ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ لِلْإِنسَٰنِ خَذُولًۭا
And Shaytaan for mankind is a deserter.
[25:28-29]
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سبحان الله
This is the regret of some of the people on the day of judgement!
Think about this..
How many people are destroyed by their company?
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Abu Musa رضي الله عنه reported: The Prophet ﷺ said: “Verily, the parable of good company and a bad company is only that of a seller of musk and a blacksmith. The seller of musk will give you some perfume, you will buy some, or you will notice a good smell. As for the blacksmith, he will burn your clothes or you will notice a bad smell.”
[Sahih al-Bukhārī 5534, Sahih Muslim 2628]
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The perfume sellers from your friends, if you sat with them and you actively engaged with them in conversation, you would find only benefit and goodness, thus you will have received their perfume.
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Even if you merely sit in their company by way of chance, by virtue of being there, the gathering warrants mercy and forgiveness for every individual including yourself. Thus by virtue of their company, you gained a nice smell.
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As for the Blacksmiths, if you sit with the evil company and you engage with them, you will not find goodness, only evil things and you won’t leave except that your heart will be covered in the black soot his work produces and your clothes burned.
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And even if you do not engage with them, and you happen to sit with them by way of chance, the smell of the blacksmiths work will still rub off on your soul and you will not have increased in anything except in evil, thus at the very least, you will have a pungent foul smell.
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In a Hadith, the Prophet ﷺ warned us,
الرجل على دين خليله فلينظر أحدكم من يخالل
“A man is upon the religion of his best friend, so let one of you look at whom he befriends.”
[Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2378, Grade:Sahih]
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May Allah ﷻ grant us good friends who are a means to get to Jannah al Firdous without punishment.
آمِيْن يَارَبَّ الْعَالَمِينْ
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