Abdur-Raheem McCarthy – The Most Important Choice You’ll Ever Make

			Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim.
		

			The most important decision you will ever make in your life.
		

			The most important decision you ever make in your life, what is it?
		

			It's choosing your friends
		

			who you hang out with.
		

			Who's your crew? Who's your boy? It's
		

			a decision that we'll make throughout our lives from the time we're young, until we get older, the
friends that we hang out with the friends that we choose, is it really that big of a deal? Pay
attention to what's Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us, he said Allah O Allah de Valle
Jambo hado Coleman, you heard him that an individual is on the religion of his friend, so pay
attention to whom you'll be friends. On the religion of the friend, he didn't say just say he was
affected by his friend, he said, he's on the religion of the friend Allahu Akbar. That's how much
the friend influences you.
		

			And that's why the process and him gave us the beautiful example in the Hadith, of how we're
affected by who we hang out with, by who we befriend when he gave the example of methyl el jellies.
assala who Julissa sue the example of sitting with a good friend and sitting with the bad friend.
And he said, it's just like Hamilton Miss, whenever can pay you like the one who's the one who's
selling the mask. And the one who's the blacksmith, the good friend being the one who sells the
mask. And the bad friend being the blacksmith. He said that Hamilton misc, this one, the good
friend, you're going to get one of three things from him one of three, the first being that he will
		

			either give you a gift, or he'll sell to you. And if he sells to you as your friend, most likely
he's going to sell it to you with a discount, it's going to be cheap, to give you half price might
even give you the price, he bought it for even less because he's your friend. So here is the second
thing, he's going to give you a good deal, he's going to sell you some first time he gave it to you
a second time he went, he's gonna give you a gift. Or he said at least if it's not this, or that
you're not gonna get the gift or he's not gonna give you a good deal. At least you're gonna smell
good by hanging out with him. Because he's always been in the musk dealer in the perfumes so you
		

			hanging out with him, you're gonna smell good, too. And the second one, the bad companion, he said,
the blacksmith either he's gonna burn your thief, he's gonna burn your clothes. Or you're gonna have
a bad smell and hanging out with one of the two. And this is a beautiful example given by a pseudo
lossless alum about how we are affected by our friends. That what is the criteria of the friend? Who
should we choose as a friend? How do we know who's a good friend is about what should we put as our
criteria? And how do they let Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam also showed us he said at least
allowed to a salon learn to saw him in Mena while
		

			he letter P only be friend, a believer, only befriend a believer, and nobody should eat from your
food except for the one who was pious. So the first thing when you choose your friend is that he's a
movement. He's a believer. And secondly, not just a believer, not just a Muslim, but he's a pious
Muslim. And that's why the process Selim said that he should only call to the to break bread with
you and eat with you. The one who was the fee. And that's when you say about breaking bread or
having a meal with that's always your closest friend when you're gonna invite him for a meal. So he
said don't eat with the one or don't invite your food except for the one who was lucky. The one who
		

			has the taqwa, the fear of Allah subhanho wa Taala. This is the one you need to be the believer. And
the one who has to be the one who has the taqwa the awareness of a loss of power of what's out in
his life by doing what he's supposed to do, and stay away from that which is evil. And if we are
honest with ourselves, and ask ourselves that honest question, what do you want from your friends?
What is your goal by befriending somebody? Is it just to have a laugh in the Hangout? Or do you want
to benefit from them? having friends, it's a mutual relationship with giving and taking you benefit
from them. They benefit from you. You make them feel good, they make you feel good. Look at the two
		

			friends. One of them. He reminds you that he it's time to go and pray. It's time he sees you looking
you walk in the street, you're looking at it at a beautiful place that a tequila is gonna be in your
skin a bad deal. millefiori tequila, and a second friend, he's gonna be like, Yo, check this one
out, man. Check her out. You know, check it out. And he's entice you to look like this stuff a lot.
We're supposed to lower our gaze. He's like yeah, logo for her. Hey, man. Come on. Look, man. She's
beautiful
		

			stuff for a lot of them. And then it comes time for
		

			salaat and he says to you,
		

			in the heart, you're good. You're a good Muslim man. He knows your heart. You don't have to pray to
prove it. These are the two examples of the good friend and the bad friend. We need to choose our
friends properly. Because as Rasulullah saw, Selim said, You own the religion of your friend and pay
attention to something. If you reflect when you read sortal Cafe every Friday, one of the ads that
pop out to you the command of Allah subhana wa Tada. will spill enough sicoma Allah Dena, you're the
owner of the home below her that he will ashy, you read una ledger wallet do Ayana and home so
panela Allah, Allah subhanho wa Taala said in this verse, and be patient because life is difficult.
		

			As you're traveling down the path of life with your friends, and you're gonna face difficulties. He
said, Make yourself patient with those who are the ones who are calling on their Lord, night and
day. They want the face of alosa pattern was either to make a dua to Allah subhanho wa Taala. And
then pay attention, he said, and don't let your eyes past them. Meaning what keep your friends
close, because when your good friends are close to you, you're going to be strong. When they drift
away. You're going to become weak when you're by yourself. So keep your friends close, and pay
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			to what Allah subhana wa Taala tells us about humans the AMA, when we befriend those who are the
evil ones, what's going to happen to those who befriend the evil ones. Allah subhanho wa Taala said,
well, you owe me I'll do Baldy more or less. When the oppressor is biting down on his hand. You
almost feel he's biting down out of what he's done to himself. He's oppressed himself by sinning
shortcomings, bad deeds, befriending the evil people. What's the first thing this volume The one who
oppressed himself by turning away from Allah subhanho wa Taala what's the first thing he's gonna
say? Pay attention? Yeah, late in it to hook to moto su de Sevilla. I wish I took a path with the
		

			Prophet. I wish I followed the sooner I wish I followed the way of a solo solo while he was selling
the second thing right away. What's he gonna say? Yo, yo, let's late any lemat tucket phoolan and
karela Oh, woe to me. I wish I didn't take so and so as a friend. Why? What did so and so due to you
know, a Bologna decree by the attorney what kind of shape on in Santa Paula? That he made me turn
away from the rumors after it came to me and the ship on is the one who has falu he tricks you he
reels you in and he tricks and he leaves you in the end metal also pilots Allah protect all of us.
May Allah subhana wa Tada. Make us all from those who reflect on their friends, when they choose
		

			their friends and choose their friends wisely following the command of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, May Allah give us strength to leave those friends who are evil friends, because will if
they're evil, and they're not obeying the law and His Messenger laughed at him. There's no good and
then leave them advise them. But don't hang out with him. Only hang out with the ones who are the
pious ones and the believers as Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam commanded us to do it alone
was best a low item or some low selling robotica and the Vienna Mohammed was Salaam Alaikum
warahmatullahi wabarakatuh