The Need for Good Company

The Need for Good Company 

Maintaining good company cannot be overstated as it plays a pivotal role in shaping who you are and influences you to choose either the straight path or a destructive one. It is important to reflect on the company that you keep both at work and in your leisure time.

Allah  says in the Qur’an:

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And (remember) the Day when the Z

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lim (wrong doer, oppressor, polytheist) will bite at his hands, he will say: 

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Oh! Would that I had taken a path with the Messenger (Muhammad [sal-All

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hu 'alayhi wa sallam]).

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Ah! Woe to me! Would that I had never taken so-and-so as a Khal

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l (an intimate friend)!

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He indeed led me astray from the Reminder (this Qur'

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n) after it had come to me. And Shait

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n (Satan) is to man ever a deserter in the hour of need.

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 (Tafsir Al-Qurtubi)

​ [Soorah al-Furqaan 25:27-29]

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"Not everyone will be happy at your success nor will everyone be saddened by your loss 

so be careful whom you share your personal matters with."