Sikander Hashmi – Who Are Your Friends KMA Friday Message
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The speaker discusses the impact of socialization, particularly online, on reducing the risk of children being misled and socializing. They emphasize the importance of finding friends in person and online to have a positive and risky experience, and warn of the potential risks of online friendships. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of avoiding negative environments and protecting privacy, and advises parents to do an audit of their friends and stay away from trouble. They stress the importance of finding good companies and being proactive in helping children grow up.
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Respected elders,
dear brothers and sisters,
my young friends,
We begin by praising Allah
the lord of the universe,
our creator, our nourisher, our protector.
And we begin by sending peace and salutations
upon his beloved messenger,
Mohammed,
the son of Abdullah,
the final messenger of Allah, sallallahu alayhi, wa'ala
alayhi, salam.
I have a question for you today, and
that is
how many people have been missing their friends?
How many people have been missing their friends?
It appears
that
one of the reasons
that, inshallah, many of my young friends
have been,
wanting to go back to school in person
and not online
is so that they are able to see
their friends again. Of course, they wanna study
as well, and I know there are those
who are have been missing,
the opportunity to study in person with their
teachers.
But I think a major part of it
is actually being able to,
see friends again, in person.
Because one of the things that many children
and even adults have been missing
is socialization.
And with the easing of restrictions,
we know that, you know, social activity
has gradually increased
over the last 6 months, but overall it
it's not at pre pandemic levels.
So, you know, some people depending on the
family and their situation and their views, you
know, some people may still be quite,
careful,
about, you know, having people inside their home
or not part of their family or their
household.
Others, maybe not so much. Perhaps you have
been, you know, meeting outside,
especially during the summer in parks, or in
backyards,
you know, in outdoor places.
But there's no doubt that the level of
socialization
we had,
before,
the pandemic started,
overall, it's not at the same level because
of the existing,
restrictions.
Now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created us
human beings
as social beings.
Right? We need socialization. We are social beings.
That's why, you know, we are part of
families,
and we crave for the most part, most
people,
you know, crave friends or or,
socialization
to have someone to talk to, to spend
time with,
you know, to meet,
different people and to discuss different things and
to play together and spend time together, do
activities together.
So, generally, Allah has created us as social
beings, and most people need to have some
friends or at least some people to, socialize
with.
Now
regardless
of whether, you know, we are, truly
friends in person because, of course, we know
there are different types of friends. There are
people who are, you know, your true friends.
You have people who claim to be your
friends, but then they're not really your friends
when you really need them.
There are people who become friends online.
Perhaps you've never even met them, and in
some instances,
you know, if those friendships are genuine,
it's great when you actually get to meet
in person. You know, if that person is
a good person,
and, you know, there's no danger to you
and you've gotten to know them,
it can be a great thing. However, it
can also be very risky as well because
many times
people portray themselves as something else online
and in reality, there it's, it's a completely
different reality to the point where, you know,
there's a great risk for children,
online because sometimes there are people who pretend
to be children their age, who pretend to
have the same or similar interests,
but in reality, it is someone very different
behind the screen. It might be, you know,
an adult,
an elder. It could be someone who's, you
know, of a different gender in a different
place. So people online may be completely misrepresenting
who they actually are. So this also presents
a great risk and a great danger, especially
to young people. But the point is that
regardless of whether we are truly friends in
person,
you know, or you say it's your BFF,
BFL,
or your besties,
or your friends online,
their point is that friends
can have tremendous influence upon you.
Your friends
can have a tremendous
and often will have a tremendous
influence upon you. If a person says
that they grew up
without any influence
from anyone. Now that likely won't be accurate.
If a person says no, I grew up
and nobody influenced me,
I didn't socialize with anyone. Yeah. I had
some friends, but I didn't really care about
them. You know, for for most people, that
will be an inaccurate statement. But, of course,
you know, our parents,
our siblings have an influence upon us.
But as we grow up, we're not with
our parents and our siblings all the time.
Right? Yes. Maybe during the pandemic, you have
to have stayed with your parents and your
siblings, you know, with your family. But the
reality is is that when we're growing up
and through the course of life, we don't
spend our entire lives with our parents and
with our siblings. We interact with other people
as well. And more often than not, a
good portion of our life is spent with
our friends.
And even if the time that we spend
with them isn't that much, because maybe, you
know, you're someone who doesn't spend too too
much time with your friends. I know some
people spend a lot of time with their
friends. But maybe you're someone who doesn't really
spend that much time, just know that there
is much to gain and to lose with
our friends. Right? So even if the time
is is not that much,
the influence of that relationship, of that friendship
can be tremendous. The prophet
has told us that
The example, right, the parable of a good
friend and a bad friend. So here the
prophet, the prophet, the son of a sudden,
just said, you know, there's gonna be different
types of friends. There's gonna be good friends,
or or. Right? There will be bad friendships.
Right? So there will be these types of
people, you know, these types of friendships that
people end up having. The prophet gave the
example of the carrier of musk. Right? So
nice perfume
and a blacksmith. Blacksmith is a person who
works with iron. Right? Metal makes things, you
know, and by burning them,
by making them hot. So works with fire
and, you know, and and things that that,
you know, they burn, get black, there's smoke,
there's fire. So the prophet
said
that the carrier of musth
will give you some
or
you will buy some
or you will notice a good smell. Okay?
So if you the example of your friend
is like the carrier of musk, like someone
who carries perfume, deals with perfume.
So what will happen? That they will give
you some
or perhaps if they're not that close, they
won't give you, but you'll buy some from
them. Or at the very least, you will
notice a good smell. So they don't give
you any they don't you don't buy any
from them, but you you are in a
good environment. It will smell nice.
Right? It will be a good,
person to be around.
But as for the blacksmith,
right, because he's working with
fire and smoke
in that type of environment,
you will burn your clothes or you will
notice a bad smell. So either it will
have an impact on you, meaning you will
get burned, your clothes will get burned, or
at the very least you will notice a
bad smell. Right? So the environment that you're
gonna be in is going to be
not so great. It's not going to be
very pleasant.
Now, of course, this is just to give
an example. You know, it's nothing against blacksmiths
and, you know, blacksmiths can be very honorable
and good people.
They can give you gifts as well. You
know, this summer, I had the opportunity to
visit, Upper Canada Village.
And, while at Upper Upper Canada Village, there
was actually a blacksmith,
who was working there, as part of the
village,
as part of the experience. And he's a
very friendly gentleman.
You know, I tried to say salaam. He
was not Muslim or Arab, but, you know,
he said salaam and tried
to, welcome us and, and even made a
little, you know, a little hook,
as a little gift and and, gave it
to us as well. So nothing against blacksmiths,
and they can give you gifts as well.
But, yes, the environment
that blacksmith is working in, right, and this
is, of course, just an example, is one
of
smoke and heat and fire and and and
soup, you know, which is, you know, can
get dirty and and can cause damage.
So the point is that if you keep
around people who are into burning right? What
does burning signify? Causing damage,
right, and destruction
to people,
to property,
to the dignity of people,
right, who are into,
you know, disregard of the guidance also, and
rules and regulations,
we will end up hurting you too.
Right? So this is an example. Right? To
say that if you're around such people,
if you have company, if you have friends
that are into these types of things, right,
into causing destruction,
who have disregard, who will cause,
you know, the who who who give up
negativity or work in negative influence in society,
in the community, in the world,
then you too will end up getting hurt.
Right? Either you will get hurt or if
they smell bad, meaning in terms of their
character. Right? It is bad. Your attitudes are
bad. They are negative. They are toxic. Then
you too will get impact. Right? So the
whole point here is that the type of
environment we put ourselves in, the type of
people we put ourselves around, they will have
an impact on us. Right? And if they
are negative, if the environment is negative, if
it's toxic,
it's smelly, then that will have an impact
on us as well. Right? And, of course,
if the environment is positive,
then the opposite impact will be there as
well. And this happens all the time. We
find, you know, bad friends,
you know, who are into doing bad things
for others and eventually, at some point, that
same happens to them. Right? You can find
numerous examples. Maybe even some think of some
in your own life as well of people
you dealt with or people that you knew,
that, you know, they were into doing things
which were bad to others.
Right? They have bad character. They were doing
things they were into doing things which were
negative, which were wrong to others, but eventually,
they turned on themselves. Eventually, it actually happened
to them as well. Protect
us all.
At the time of the prophet
there
was a man
by the name of
Uqhba ibn Abi Moiit.
And he was one of the chieftains, one
of the chiefs of the mashriqin of the
polytheists in Makkah.
And it was customary with him
that whenever he would return
after an expedition,
used to invite
the noble the nobility of the city to
dinner. Right? So the noble the widows of
the of the of the city would invite
him to dinner. And he would also use
to call upon the prophet
frequently as well. When he presented food to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he said to him that I cannot eat
your food until
you proclaim that Allah is 1 and that
no one can be associated with him in
worship and that I am his Rasool. Right?
Essentially, until you declare the shahada.
So Ubba
recited
the shahada,
and then the prophet
ate the dinner according to his promise. Right?
So he promised them that if, you know,
I'm not gonna eat until before the shahada,
You know? And so that was a condition
that the prophet said.
And, it is said that, you know, Oba
didn't like, you know, to have any animosity
and negativity. So, you know, you wanted the
prophet to take part in his dinner.
So he decided the shahad that he declared
the shahad.
Now
his friend,
Ubayb al Khalaf, was one of the sponsors
enemies of Islam and of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
And he got word of this that his
friend, Uqba,
had actually accepted Islam or had at least,
you know, recited the shahada.
So he got word of this and he
was enraged. He could not believe it. Now
how come my friend because remember, he was
one of those not just enemies of Islam
and of the prophet,
So he couldn't believe it that his friend,
his close friend, Uqba, had actually done this,
had actually
said that, you know, he accepted,
Allah
alone and that
that Mohammed
was his messengers. He couldn't believe that.
So he came,
obey him running to Uqba
saying that have you turned away from the
religion of your forefathers, Uqba?
Have you actually done this? Have you turned
away?
So Uqba tried to defend himself by explaining
that, you know, Hamad salalahu alaihi wa sallam
was an eminent person of the Quraysh.
Now if he had returned without having his
meal at his place, he would have been
very degrading for Uqba. He would have, you
know, he would have felt bad, he would
have looked bad.
So, therefore, in order to please the prophet
he had just repeated
that the sentence meaning the words of the
shahad.
Now Ubayy ibn Khala did not accept this
explanation,
and he asked Ubayy ibn Khalaq to do
something,
terrible, especially to anyone, but especially to the
prophet of Allah, who
chose to go
and to spit on the holy face of
the prophet,
if he was truly ashamed about what he
had done. Okay. So you can see,
that, of course, here the consequences
and the action itself is is terrible, very
serious.
But you can see how peer pressure works.
Right? Friend is upset. Now how could you
do this? Challenges a person, you know, you
know that people exchange dares as well and
take them very, very seriously. So it's something
along those lines where he says, okay. If
you really didn't really mean it, if you
really felt feel bad about what you did
because I'm so upset and this this was
wrong what you did, therefore, you go and
you do this terrible act.
Now,
Upa didn't want to lose his friend in
Ubay.
So he stood at the corner where the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was going to pass
by, and it is said that he did
what Ubayhi had wanted him to do. Allah
disgraced him in this world,
and, of course, he will be disgraced in
the hereafter as well. But after he had
done this evil action,
the commentators of the Quran say that the
prophecy will say that Allah
revealed
these verses.
Talks about that day that the day
that the wrongdoer will bite at his hand,
will bite at his hand out of regret,
and he will say
that, oh, or that I had taken a
straight path with the messenger.
At that point, he's gonna regret that he
had actually done this action. And even though
he had expressed,
you know, or testified
to Islam, at least by time, you know,
he had come this close,
but yet it was the friend who had
then let him astray from that or the
the friend who had, you know, acted as
a a,
a source of, demotivation or a source of
turning away from what he had already
declared.
Yeah.
Woe be to me. Woe is me. What
that I had never taken
such a person, such a one for a
friend. Right? So on that day, on the
day of judgment,
right, he will be regretting
the fact that he had this friendship with
this person.
He led me astray from the message of
Allah after it had come to me. Indeed,
Allah said, indeed, Shaitan is but a disgrace
or betrayer
to man, to the human being. Right? To
the insan.
So the message have Allah had come to
him. He had declared it with his tongue.
Yet because of his this this wretched friend
of his or this evil friend of his
because of this evil friendship,
he you know, that became a means for
him to turn away from that which he
had come to him, meaning the message of
Allah
which he had even declared with his tongue,
and he turned back on that simply because
of peer pressure, simply because of this
friend that he had. The scholars of Quran
who relate this story, they say that these
verses are not limited to.
It's not just limited to. Right? And they're
the the the point of the lessons and
the stories that Allah mentions in the Quran.
Yes. Many times they are they they were
revealed for a specific incident,
but there are lessons there to be learned,
right, for all of time. And here,
right, the scholars say that it could apply
to anyone who's influenced by bad friends.
Anyone who is turned away from the truth,
whose friends
act as a barrier to reaching,
goodness and to reaching the truth. Right? That
person will regret or could be regretting on
the day of judgment that they had taken
such friends.
Right? Because in this world, we fall into
pressure. We fall into
following our friends and, you know, the pressures
that are around us
even for things many times, unfortunately, which are
wrong. Right? And during this moment in this
world, we seem like it's not a big
deal, But perhaps it seems like we're doing
the right thing. But on the day of
judgment,
right, on the day of judgment, a person
who has taken wrong decisions because of their
friends, who has taken wrong who has made
wrong choices and taking wrong turns because of
their friends, they will be regretting that friendship
on the day of judgement. May Allah
protect us all. Now the story of Allah
may seem extreme,
but that's exactly what negative peer pressure is.
Right? Which comes from friends many times because
the person wants to maintain good relations with
their friends. Right? You want to be part
of that social circle. You want to be
in. You want to be accepted. You don't
want to be, you know, made fun of
or to be left out. Right? So that
pressure is immense. That pressure of trying to
maintain
friendships and relationships. And if a close friend,
you know, wants you to do something and
applies a bit of pressure, there's a good
chance that you're gonna end up doing it.
Right? That's just the way friendships work. Right?
If you're really good friends with someone, you're
close to someone, and they put pressure upon
you, right, to do something, and even if
you don't wanna do it, if they put
a lot you know, some pressure, especially if
they put inserting, you know, they start exerting
a lot of pressure, there's a good chance
you're gonna end up doing it. And even
if it's not direct peer pressure,
what your friends are like and what they
do
will rub off on you in some way.
Right? Because it's the environment that you're in.
It's the things that you're exposed to. It's
the type of things that you're hearing and
that you're seeing, the types of things that
they're sharing now, especially on social media. Right?
So those things will have an impact on
you. Right? Whether you like it or not,
your company, your environment will have an impact
on you. Just as if a person is
living in an extremely polluted place,
right, where there is a lot of smog
and a lot of pollution in the air,
right, where the water is dirty and the
air that they're breathing is dirty and the,
you know, the vegetables that are growing, the
fruits that are, growing in the environment are
dirty, are tainted.
Right? That will have an impact on that
person's health. Right? Simply by virtue of them
living and operating in that environment. So similarly,
when we have bad company around us, right,
when we lack positive company around us, then
that too will have an impact on us
even if it's not direct.
So the question is, if your friends, you
know, are going somewhere and they pressure you
to go to go with them,
are you able to say no?
Right?
And even if there's no pressure, are you
able to say no to your friends?
Now are you able to stand up for
what you believe in and what you believe
is right? Or do you feel
pressured either directly or indirectly to go along
with your friends?
Will your friends be respectful of your choices?
Or will they make fun of your choices?
Right? That's a question I always ask myself.
That if a person
who claims to be my friend cannot respect
my choices and my beliefs, then they don't
deserve to be my friend.
They don't deserve to be my friend. Right?
Because if they can't respect who I am,
if they can't respect my choices, my preferences,
and my beliefs,
then why should I be their friend? Right?
Why should I give them my friendship?
If they're using bad language, you know, if
they're backbiting about others,
if they're gossiping about others, if they're involved
in illicit relationships,
if they're involved in consuming,
you know, illicit,
substances,
watching things which are haram, you know, talking
about things which are haram, there's a good
chance that you're gonna become a part of
it too. Right? Even if they're not telling
you to do it, but you they're just
doing it in your presence and you're hanging
out with them and you're exposed to that,
then you're seeing them do it, and you're
you are considering yourself to be their friends,
there's a good chance you'll also become a
part of it as well. If not right
away, then gradually.
And it's not just for children. Right? Adults
too. We have I mean, this the story
of, of Okla,
is, is, of course, you know, a story
which had to do with,
adults. Right? Okla and Kobay were not children.
Right? That was peer pressure of
adults. So adults are very much, you know,
at risk of this as well. Pressure from,
coworkers, from your peers, from your relatives, from
your friends. Right? All of that is a
reality.
And, in some cases, you know, the corrupted
beliefs
and attitudes of friends
has turned people into criminals,
you
know, even murderers,
you know, and has also negatively
influenced their faith as well. Right? There's some
very, very tragic stories, you know, of young
people who are growing up, who in their
childhood were, you know, were good kids.
They weren't in trouble. And as they were
growing up, especially if they're going through their
teen years, especially when that big switch comes
from middle school to high school, and as
they're going through that those tumultuous years,
well, they're tumultuous for for for most youth.
You know, a lot of things that are
going on, they end up with the wrong
crowd. Right? They end up being taken advantage
of even in some cases. Right? Terrible crimes.
Even against several family members.
Right? At
the due to the influence
of their friends. Right? And, of course, the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has told us
that
that a person
is upon the deen, right, upon the religion,
the path, the way of life of his
close friend.
So beware of whom you befriend.
Beware. Pay attention to who you are making
your friend because whoever you're making your friends,
you are giving them a pass.
You are giving them a ticket to influence
you.
Okay? So you look at the types of
people, pay attention, and who are you getting
close to? Who are you spending time with?
Because those are the people who you are
most likely gonna become like. Those are the
people whose actions will rub off on you
and you will start
believing and acting like them as well.
So this means that a person will be
upon the same methodology,
the same ideology,
right, similar beliefs,
way of life
as their friend,
the same path as their friend. So be
very, very careful
about whom you'll be friends. We also have
the example
of
Abu Dali, the dear uncle of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, who helped him so much,
who helped the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
tremendously.
Right? Who protected him? He was a rock
for him essentially. Maybe uncle of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Abu Talib. Right? Great
man in terms of his contributions to protecting
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and helping
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Yet, on his deathbed,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam found out
that he was on his deathbed, that he
was likely going to
pass. The prophet
rushed there. And out of out of compassion,
out of love, out of mercy,
kindly encourage them just to say that, ilaha
illallah.
Right? To accept that Allah
is 1 and that he is the middle
of Allah. Few words that could have changed
his fate forever.
Subhanallah.
Prophet
told
us. Right? A person who says.
Right? So just a few words, you know,
something that he would just have to say
seemingly very simple, to change his
faith, you know, tremendous like, drastically
in the hereafter.
And so he pleaded with him.
You
know, please. So he pleaded with him. Oh,
my uncle.
You know? This is so but it was
the pressure
from his close friends.
It was pressure from his close friends.
Who? Abu Jahan. Those type of friends. Right?
Enemies of Islam that haunted him and alas
he didn't accept.
You know, that risk
of doing something which will, you know, which
will offend
the friends
and and and leave, you know, a a
a legacy of this betrayal of friendship
forever.
That is
what seemingly held back Abu Talib
from
reciting that,
and he died in that state without saying
that.
So a a a terribly, you know, sad
state of affairs, a sad end for someone
who had, you know, done so much and
had so much potential and was so close.
But because of that built relationship, because of
that friendship
mainly,
right, we find that
that acted as a barrier.
Now peer pressure, of course, can be positive
too. So if your friends, if your acquaintances,
if you have good company and they're doing
something positive,
you know, they're praying on time. They have
good manners. They're coming to the message. They're
staying away from trouble. And I've seen, you
know, young people love that. Now I've seen
I witnessed myself
bless, all of our youngsters, all of our
youth, protect
them all.
And you have seen, you know, young guys,
masha'Allah, who are, you know, they they vow
themselves.
That Saturday mornings, they're gonna come to the
masjid.
Saturday mornings, they're gonna come to the masjid
for Fajr. Now the group of youth are
coming to the masjid for Fajr
on Saturday. What does that mean? It means
that they're out of trouble on Friday night.
Otherwise, they will be coming to the masjid
for Fajr,
by themselves,
willingly wanting to come, and they wanted to
study something afterwards.
You know, I've seen I've seen young people
like that in university.
You know, I'm sure there's many other examples
as well. So if you make good friends,
if you find good company that can elevate
a person, you know, they've been friends who
came together in university, and they all decided
they're they after they graduate, they wanna go
study SNAP. And they all did that, masha'Allah.
You know? So and, of course,
you know, you can find numerous examples, boys
and girls as well. So if you find
you a good company and you you are
together, then that could be a great influence
as well-to-do
good things and to become a better person.
So point is that
if you have good friends,
either they'll give you something beneficial,
either they'll give you something beneficial
or you'll give something and they'll give you
something or at the very least, you're gonna
stay away from trouble.
Even if you don't gain much, at the
very least, you're gonna stay away from trouble.
And if you have bad friends, if you
have evil friends,
right, you will get burned one way or
the other.
And at the very least, your character,
your faith,
your intellect, your behavior, your attitude
will all look smell, will all look
and smell
and feel that.
Right? Because if you're around people who's, you
know, who stink, and I don't mean physically
any stink, you know, like, whose character is
bad, right, whose behavior is bad, then you're
gonna start thinking as well. Right? And same
thing goes online as well because, you know,
oftentimes we think of friends that are, any
that we have face to face contact with,
but even online friends. Right? If you are
around
bad people.
Right?
And your your friends are bad,
online,
you're following people who are into bad things,
then your news feed is gonna be filled
with bad things. Those are the alerts you're
gonna be getting. Those are the notifications you're
gonna be getting. You're gonna be seeing inappropriate
and dirty comments and material and pictures and
all types of things and thoughts, and that
is gonna influence you most likely. Right? They
will have an effect on you. So my
brothers and sisters,
a few things. So first of all, do
an audit of your friends.
Now are they helping you become better? Right?
Your friends and the people you're around, are
they helping you become better? Or are they
the types of friends that discourage you from
doing good things?
Right? Which type of people are you around?
Do you do they encourage you? Just simple
question to answer for yourself. Do they encourage
you to do good, or do they encourage
you to do bad? Right? Are they respectful
respectful of your beliefs or not?
Secondly, when you get together,
what do you do?
What are the things that you do? What
do you talk about?
Are the things that people don't wanna hear
about that, you know, you don't want people
to hear about? Are you doing things that,
you know, are you doing things and talking
about things that you don't want other people
to know about?
What are the things that they're involved in?
Right? Are these things that you're ashamed of
telling others, especially
for younger people, your parents, your teachers? Right?
Is it something that you're ashamed of that
you don't want people to find out about?
And I also think how can you encourage
your friends towards positive and good and clean
things? Because sometimes within a group of friends,
yes, maybe will someone will have a bad
idea. Someone will have an evil thought. No
one's perfect. Right? But it's the job of
good friends to help guide one another, to
help support one another, right, to the best
of their ability, to guide a person away
from making wrong choices.
Right, to try to help them make the
right choices.
In the end, the most important question is,
are you going to be happy
that you had these friends in this life
on the day of judgement,
Or are you going to regret and be
upset at them for all the trouble that
they got you into when you are around
them?
Right. On the day of judgment,
when you think of your friends on the
day of judgment, are you going to be
glad that they were your friends? Or are
you going to be biting your hand in
regret?
Yeah. Saying those type of words, regretting
that you had taken someone as your friends.
And for parents,
you know, of course, try to have good
company yourselves. Be on the lookout for changes
in behavior.
Right? Pay attention to the types of friends
that your child is hanging out with, and
be proactive before things get out of hand.
Right? Whatever steps need to be taken. If
something's not working,
you need to fix it. What's What's it
saying? If it's not broken, don't fix it.
Okay? If it's fine,
But if it's not working,
keeping status quo is not gonna help the
situation. Right? So whether it's changing schools, neighborhoods,
or your social circle, or whatever is possible,
all options need to be on the table.
Will Allah please bless us with good company
and surround us with good people.
Will Allah please protect us from evil company
and evil companions.
Oh, Allah, please beautify our conduct, our attitudes,
our beliefs with the beauty of iman.
Oh, Allah, please guide those who are on
the path of misguidance and harm.
Oh, Allah, our youth, our children,
adults, oh, Allah, whoever is on the path
of misguidance,
oh, Allah, please guide them to guidance, You
Rabbil Alameen. Oh, Allah, please cure all of
our brothers and sisters of all types of
illnesses, whether they are spiritual or physical or
mental, You Rabbil Alameen. Oh, Allah, please cure
all of our brothers and sisters who are
sick, who are physically sick, especially our elder
sister who are suffering from illness and pain,
our brother and sister who are suffering from
long term pain and injuries, all of those
who are ill or at risk of becoming
ill. Just heard about the mother of our
dear mother, Rahil, who is once again ill.
Oh, Allah, you are the protector and healer.
Oh, Allah, please grant them a speedy recovery,
You Rabbal Alameen. Oh, Allah, please protect them
and all of us from all types of
illnesses and pain and suffering, and grant them
a state of peace, Oh, Allah, please bring
relief to all of those who are in
pain, all of those who are in grief,
all of those who are facing stress and
anxiety.
Oh, Allah, please replace all of these worries
with happiness and peace and joy.
Brothers and sisters who are at home, please
go ahead and offer 4 o'clock, or
if you have registered for Friday prayer, please
come at your allotted time tonight. We'll be
having, family game night at 7:45 PM. Everyone
is welcome. Please do log on with your
families,
at 7:[email protected]/live.
You will be able to find the link
there. Look forward to, seeing you inshallah.