A Friend in Deen is a Friend Indeed

Friendship 

Human beings by nature are social creatures, in need of companions and friends. Therefore they do interact by one another to share their feelings and to influence by one another.

Most of our lives depend on interaction, and man therefore compelled to live in the society and with other individuals.  

Friendship is the best blessing in life to overcome loneliness and solidarity. Particularly, the frienship in Deen is more valuable than any other friendship, for its sincerity plus no mysterious aim is in their friendship. 

Friendship is like a ship, so before you take that ship over the seas and oceans in life test is it a reliable or not then choose it.

In Islam, friendship is the key to choose a peacfull and straight path in both lives. Therefore, if you want to engage with someone, you should select carefully by finding out their characteristics attentively.  

Moreover, it's been said by the pious people that if you want to know the behaviour of a person see his tongue and if you aslo want to know his intelligence test how he deal with his time management. 

In fact the people with whom you surround yourself have a great impact on who you become in life. So be sure whom you want be your friends. Arab says: "The friend is like the magnet," that means it can make you being attracted towards his deeds.

Choosing a Friend 

Choosing a friend is extremely important in the journey of this life because we need to make that journey as well as possible. However, before choosing take care who's that one.

At the first, it's had better look his behaviour and manners not only that but also whom he's with. It's been said, "Tell me who you go with and I'll tell you who you're".  Also the person is like the behaviour of his friend, so please, check whom you engage with. 

Characteristics of a Good Friend

In Islam, it considers some of special characters to have for a good friend:

• Faith 

• Obedience to his parents

• Intelligence

• Honesty 

• Uprightness and well mannersim

• Truthfulness

 

Besides, there are other additional qualities of a good friend: 

1. When you see him, he reminds you of Allah.

2. When you sit with him, it increases your Iimaan.

3. When you see his actions, you remember the Aakhira.

These are the good aspects of a good friend, stick on them.

The Benefits of Friendship in Islam

Friendship has a lot of worthy benefits in life that are countless:

▪ In difficulties, friendships make easy for us to get rid most of the difficulties which across your life, after you got Allah's mercy.

▪ Also it helps us to boost our self-esteem aa well as our social health. 

▪Having a good friend is better than millions of wealthy in solidarity or with bad ones.

▪ It enrichs our lives in both worldly and hereafter.

How can we Remove bad friendship?

It's necessary for us to end up bad frienship out from our lives because their presence is such a great pain to our body, in mentally and physically.

Properly, we all had bad friends, but we shouldn't allow them to be with and we must to halt such of that friendships. Instead we go with our moral friends, therefore we get their positive impacts on our lives.

Indeed, how many friends lose their life because of their bad friends. Arab says," The friend is a companion". Every single person in our lives has an impact on us. It's bees said that friends have 60-percent on one another, while teachers have the rests(40-percent) to us.

To get to the point, stay away from that friendship as much as you can. Even though if we meet with them on social media, we should not give a glance to see their messages. 

We are beings, and we need to live together healthily. None of us can live alone; thus, Allah created for us more peoples to be as our companions in this worldy life. 

At the end, a friend in need is not a friend indeed; a friend in Deen is a friend indeed.