💐 In The Name Of Allah The Most Gracious The Most Merciful
💌 Three tricks of shaytan to interfere with your friendships:
One - instilling pride in your heart so you can't forgive,
Spoiling you with unjust thoughts so you tend to suspect,
Driving you to feel insecure so you get jealous,
And confusing you so real friends cannot be trusted.
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Suspicion, one of shaytan's tools, can produce hatred,
Misleading you to questioning honest friends' motives,
Getting disappointed when some of their acts upset,
Whilst they were busy or struggling with their own tests.
Pious friends breaking up can breed sorrow and unrest.
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Two - shaytan's other trick is playing with people's hearts,
Ruining innocence and designing messed up art.
When he spots souls who love for Allah, this foe can start
Intense feelings of attraction wherein fitna sparks,
So a more rebellious form of zina is embarked.
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The deceitful devil can distort sisterly love
And switch admiration into an addicting crush,
So when they're behind closed doors, they're lured into vile acts,
Assuming since they can't get pregnant, they won't get caught -
They just "care about each other". Yeah, a bit too much.
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Three - Another trap of shaytan to break connections
Between striving Muslims is excessive attachment,
Clinging to Allah's servants with high expectations,
And when one moves away or they're no longer living,
The other considers suicide from deep depression.
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Loving people more than Allah is a huge problem.
Gradually it may resemble polytheism,
If instead of trusting Allah, you prefer your friends,
With prayers delayed due to fruitless interactions,
And pursuit of Allah's Love becomes a mere option.
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So shaytan can't get in the way of worthwhile friendships,
Love purely for Allah to keep the bond protected,
Be each other's mirrors, exchange Islamic knowledge,
And pray for one another in Du'as wholehearted
Till you reach Jannah where hearts don't need to be tested.
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📖 Mu'adh Ibn Jabal RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said: "Allah the Exalted said: 'Those who love each other for the sake of My Glory will be upon pulpits of light and they will be envied by the prophets and the martyrs.'"
Source: Sunan At-Tirmidhi 2390
Grade: Sahih
📖 Anas Ibn Malik RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Whoever has three traits within himself will find the sweetness of faith: One who loves Allah and His Messenger (the Prophet Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam) more than anything else, one who loves a servant only for the sake of Allah, and one who hates to return to unbelief after Allah has saved him, just as he hates to be thrown into the fire."
Source: Sahih Al-Bukhari 16, Sahih Muslim 43
Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi (Authenticity agreed upon) according to Al-Bukhari and Muslim
📖 Abdullah Ibn Mas’ud RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Each one of you has a devil-companion from the jinn over him." They said, “Even you, O Messenger of Allah?” The Prophet SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Even me, yet Allah helped me against him until he embraced Islam. He does not order me to do anything but good."
Source: Sahih Muslim 2814
Grade: Sahih (Authentic) according to Muslim
📖 Abdullah Ibn Mas’ud RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Verily, shaytan has influence with the son of Adam and the angel has influence. As for the influence of shaytan, he promises evil and denies the truth. As for the influence of the angel, he promises goodness and affirms the truth. Whoever finds this goodness, let him know that it is from Allah and let him praise Allah. Whoever finds something else, let him seek refuge in Allah from the accursed shaytan." Then, the Prophet SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam recited the verse, 'shaytan threatens you with poverty and commands evil, but Allah promises you forgiveness and favor from Him.' (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:268)"
Source: Sunan At-Tirmidhi 2988
Grade: Sahih (Authentic) according to Al-Albani
📖 Abu Huraira RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Verily, Allah has pardoned my nation for what occurs within themselves, as long as they do not speak of it or act upon it."
Source: Sahih Al-Bukhari 6287
Sahih Muslim 127
Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi (Authenticity agreed upon) according to Al-Bukhari and Muslim
Ibn Al-Qayyim said, “Know that passing thoughts are not harmful. Indeed, they are only harmful if they are sought after and engaged. For a thought is like a passerby on the road; if you ignore him, he will depart from you.”
Source: Al-Jawāb Al-Kāfī 1/157