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tors of one another. If you do not act in this way your eating together or eating separately. And
there will be turmoil in the land and great cor- when you enter houses greet one another with a
ruption. (8:73) greeting from Allah, blessed and good. In this
Or did you suppose that you would be left with- way Allah makes the Signs clear to you so that
out Allah knowing those of you who have strived hopefully you will use your intellect. (24:61)
and who have not taken anyone as their intimate (On that Day a wrongdoer will say,) ‘Alas for me!
friends besides Allah and His Messenger and the If only I had not taken so-and-so for a friend!’
believers? Allah is aware of what you do. (9:16) (25:28)
You who believe, do not befriend your fathers (Companions of the Fire will say,) ‘We do not
and brothers if they prefer disbelief to faith. have a single loyal friend.’ (26:101)
Those among you who do befriend them are The Prophet is closer to the believers than their
wrongdoers. (9:23) own selves, and his wives are their mothers. But
The men and women of the believers are friends blood-relations have closer ties to one another in
of one another. They command what is right and the Book of Allah than other believers and the
forbid what is wrong, and perform prayer and emigrants, except that you should act in a proper
give the alms, and obey Allah and His manner towards your close associates. That is in-
Messenger. They are the people on whom Allah scribed in the Book. (33:6)
will have mercy. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. One of them will say, ‘I used to have a friend,’
(9:71) who would say to me, "Are you one of those who
Yes, the friends of Allah will feel no fear and will say that it is true: that when we have died and are
know no sorrow. (10:62) turned to dust and bones, we will face a
(Yusuf said,) ‘My Lord, You have granted power Reckoning?"’ (37:51-53)
to me on earth and taught me the true meaning of And warn them of the Day of Immediacy when
events. Originator of the heavens and earth, You hearts rise choking to the throat. The wrongdoers
are my Friend in this world and the Next. So take will have no close friend nor any intercessor who
me as a Muslim at my death and join me to the might be heard. (40:18)
people who are righteous.’ (12:101) A good action and a bad action are not the same.
Tell My servants who believe that they should Repel the bad with something better and, if there
perform prayer and give from what We have pro- is enmity between you and someone else, he will
vided for them, secretly and openly, before a Day be like a bosom friend. (41:34)
arrives on which there will be no trading and no If someone shuts his eyes to the remembrance of
friendship. (14:31) the All-Merciful, We assign him a Satan who be-
He (Satan) only has authority over those who comes his bosom friend. (43:36)
take him as a friend and associate others with On that Day the closest friends will be enemies
Allah. (16:100) to one another–except for those who guard
It is written of him that if anyone takes him as a against evil. (43:67)
friend, he will mislead him and guide him to the The Day when friends will be of no use at all to
punishment of the Searing Blaze. (22:4) one another, and they will not be helped. (44:41)
There is no objection to the blind, no objection Those who do wrong will have their due, the
to the lame, no objection to the sick; nor to your- same as that of their friends. So they should not
selves if you eat in your own houses or your fa- hurry Me! (51:59)
thers’ houses or your mothers’ houses or your You who believe! Do not take My enemy and
brothers’ houses or your sisters’ houses or the your enemy as friends, showing love for them
houses of your paternal uncles or paternal aunts when they have rejected the truth that has come
or the houses of your maternal uncles or mater- to you, driving out the Messenger and yourselves
nal aunts or places to which you own the keys or simply because you believe in Allah your Lord. If
those of your friends. There is nothing wrong in you go out to strive in My Way and seeking My
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