You Are On The Religion of Your Friend

You Are On The Religion of Your Friend!

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Man's nature is that he is a social human being and during his/her life he will meet and befriend many people, these friends will comfort and accompany you throughout different obstacles and challenges in your life, they are happy when you are happy and sad when you are sad, your concern is their and vice verse, however in our time many Muslims have seemed to have lost sight of those who are good be befriend and those who are not.

The seriousness of keeping good friends and companions is such that a friend could lead you to paradise or to hellfire, Allah (SWT) said: "Ah! Woe to me! Would that I had never taken so-and-so as a friend! (Al-Furqan 25:28)

For the Muslim youth, this concern is on the mind of every mother and father when they send their children to school or when their children leave the house, who are they going with? Who are their friends are college? What do they talk about? But this is not restricted to children only; rather people of all ages need to be cautious in befriending and socialising with the wrong crowd. As for the one who should befriend, first of all he should be the Muslim who believes in Allah (SWT) and Last Day and not a disbeliever, nor should you befriend those who disobey Allah (SWT) and the evidence for this is the following ayah, You (O Muhammad SAW) will not find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day, making friendship with those who oppose Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad SAW ), even though they were their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their kindred (people). (Al-Mujadilah 58:22)

Narrated Anas bin Malik: While the Prophet (ﷺ) and I were coming out of the mosque, a man met us outside the gate. The man said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! When will be the Hour?" The Prophet (ﷺ) asked him, "What have you prepared for it?... but I love Allah and His Apostle." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "You will be with the one whom you love." [Sahih Al Bukhari: (9/93) Hadith 7153) & (9/89) Hadith 267]

Moreover, you should befriend the Muslims who remain you of Allah (SWT) and your duty towards Him, those who encourage you from evil, those when you ask for advise, they give you advise from the Qur'an and Sunnah, those who do not backbite other Muslims nor do they swear and lie but rather choose the best words. They are those who remember the Ummah of Muhammad (ﷺ) much, talking about the affairs of the Muslims always and refrain from talking about matters that are of no benefit and they are those that have the best of manners.

Friendship based upon the Deen of Islam and for the sake of the Allah (SWT) is the best of bonds, whereas friendship based on materialistic bonds, such as status and wealth are of no benefit and will be a source of regret on the Day of Judgment, if your friends do not obey Allah (SWT) and have no concern for Islam and the Muslims. The Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ) said, "Whoever loves for the sake of Allah, hates for the sake of Allah, give for the sake of Allah and withholds for the sake of Allah has completed his faith."

[It was related by al-Bukhari and Muslim. (40 Hadith 13]

And it has been said: "Nobody is given anything besides his Islam better than a righteous friend."

Friends on that Day will be foes one to another except Al-Muttaqun (pious - see V.2:2) (Az-Zukhruf 43:67)

Therefore the friends you have and the environment you live in effects your belief and behaviour, for example, if you look to how many Muslims have been affected by living amongst kuffar (disbelievers), to the extent that many Muslims have adopted their beliefs and customs. Therefore the effect a bad close friend or friends would have is even greater and friendships are based on mature understanding and likes, for this reason choosing a good friend is very important and Muhammad (ﷺ) said hadith, Abu Huraira (RA) reported that Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “A man is on the religion of his friend, so let each of you observe whom he be friends.” [Sunan Tirmidhi (4/589) No. 2378, Sunan Abu Dawud (4/259) No. 4833, Musnad Ahmad (2/334) No. 8398]

Queens Speech Aims to Criminalise Muslim

QUEEN’S SPEECH AIMS TO CRIMINALISE MUSLIMS!

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The British regime under David Cameron announced on Wednesday, in the Queen’s speech, that they would be bringing in new laws to tackle so-called extremism and radicalisation. These new measures specifically target the Muslim community with banning and disruption orders with the threat of arrest and imprisonment if breached. The measures threaten the closure of Mosques and premises and the banning of groups and individuals who do not subscribe to the Cameron regimes definition of British Values or who challenge ‘democracy’.

Referring to core Islamic values as a “poisonous” extremist ideology, the UK regime intends, with these new laws, to criminalise Muslims and Islamic groups who have never actually broken any laws! Those Muslims who enjoin the goodness of Islam, who call for the Shari’ah as an alternative to the decadence of man-made laws and who reject and forbid evils such as legalising of same gender marriage, permitting people to insult the Prophet and other attacks against Islam will be subject to ASBO style silencing and disruption orders that will be arbitrarily decided by Ministers behind closed doors on the basis that they don’t find such views palatable. Muslims who rightly express hatred and intolerance towards the occupation of Muslim land, the murder of innocent Muslim men, women and children in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria and who call for the removal of barbaric regimes such as the occupying Jewish State of Israel will fall foul of Theresa May and David Cameron’s imminent laws.

Menacingly, if you don’t actually promote democracy (i.e. man to legislate as opposed to Allah), accept kufr laws and the equality between all religions (Interfaith) then you will also be subject to having a banning order slapped upon you in an attempt to silence and then arrest and eventually imprison you if you resist.  This of course strikes at the very core of Islam and the testimony of faith (Kalimah At-Tawheed or Shahadah) where we declare that there is no one truly worthy of obedience, following or worship except for Allah and that the Messenger Muhammad (pbuh) is the final Prophet of Allah and the best example for us to imitate. In December 2013 Cameron’s task force defined ‘extremism’ to include wanting a global Islamic state (Khilafah) governed by strict Shari’ah law and defining oneself as Muslim first and not British.

The new measures also extend to the Charity Commission investigating Muslim Charities, probably those at the moment helping Muslims in Syria and Iraq and also Ofcom to prevent Muslim spokesmen criticising the UK’s vile foreign policy and its oppressive domestic tactics on mainstream TV and radio. Add to this the fact that passports from Muslims travelling abroad are already being taken away, that Muslims are being made citizen-less and young Muslims, such as Zakariya Ashiq, are being given long prison sentences for thought crimes and we have all the makings of a full-fledged apartheid and Police State for Muslims in Britain!

Allah (SWT) says clearly in the Qur’an about such enemies of Islam and Muslims: ‘O you who believe! Take not as (your) Bitanah (advisors, consultants, protectors, helpers, friends, etc.) those outside your religion (pagans, Jews, Christians, and hypocrites) since they will not fail to do their best to corrupt you. They desire to harm you severely. Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, but what their breasts conceal is far worse. Indeed We have made plain to you the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses) if you understand. (Aali Imran 3:118)

And: ‘Never will the Jews nor the Christians be pleased with you (O Muhammad Peace be upon him ) till you follow their religion. Say: "Verily, the Guidance of Allah (i.e. Islamic Monotheism) that is the (only) Guidance. And if you (O Muhammad Peace be upon him ) were to follow their (Jews and Christians) desires after what you have received of Knowledge (i.e. the Qur'an), then you would have against Allah neither any Wali (protector or guardian) nor any helper. (Al-Baqarah 2:120)

O’ Muslims, there is no doubt that the struggle between truth and falsehood will continue until the day of judgement. The Messenger Muhammad (pbuh) said that ‘Each one of you is on one of the frontiers of Islam, do not let the enemy attack from your side’

It is imperative for every Muslim to stand firm, not to be silent and not to compromise his or her Deen. On the day of judgement Allah (SWT) will ask us why we did not speak when we saw his laws being violated and our fellow Muslims being oppressed and even tortured and killed. Surely Allah (SWT) is more worthy to be feared than the oppressors in this world. May Allah (SWT) grant victory to Islam and Muslims wherever they are and help us to remain firm in the face of all tests and hardships, Allahummah Ameen.