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[06/06/2025] The Importance of Choosing Good Companionship – By Abu Khadeejah ‘Abdul Wāḥid حفظه الله. Khuṭbah at Masjid Salafi, Small Heath, Birmingham, UK.
Some points discussed during this Khuṭbah:
– Mankind’s innate nature to love and enjoy the companionship of others.
– The varying levels and types of people in relation to their manners and adherence to the dīn.
– “Close friends, that Day, will be enemies to each other, except for the righteous.” [Sūrah az-Zukhruf 43: 67]
– “And the Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hands [in regret] he will say, ‘Oh, I wish I had taken with the Messenger a way. Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken so-and-so as a friend. He led me away from the remembrance after it had come to me. And ever is Shayṭān to man, a deserter.’” [Sūrah al-Furqān 25: 27-29]
– The story of how wicked companionship caused ‘Uqbah b. Abī Mu’īṭ to return to paganism after embracing Islām.
– Examples of how ‘Uqbah harmed the Prophet ﷺ, the du’ā of the Prophet ﷺ against him, and his evil outcome along with the other chiefs of Quraysh.
– How evil companionship caused Abū Ṭālib to die upon paganism despite the Prophet’s ﷺ earnest call for him to accept Islām.
– The similitude of a righteous companion and a wicked companion.
– Al-Adhīmabādī (رحمه الله) on the meaning of a man being upon the religion of his close friend.
– The two types of souls created by Allāh, and the reason why we are inclined to some people and repulsed by others.
– The fruits of good companionship and harms of wicked companionship.
– “And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord and for Paradise that is as wide as the heavens and earth, prepared for the righteous.” [Sūrah Āli ‘Imrān 3: 133]
– Clarification that sinners are advised and called to good, but not taken as companions.
– Advice to the youth to fear Allāh, strengthen their īmān and keep good companions.
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