YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS! Allah Is Your Only Protecting Friend!

You Have No Friends!

Allah Is Your Only

Protecting Friend!

(M. Javed Naseem)

“Nor will they find for themselves,

besides Allah, any protector or helper.”

(al-Quran 33:17)

Everybody needs friends and they desperately look for a ‘real’ friends. But real friends are hard to find – friends who care, share, guide and act as trustworthy protectors. Our Supreme Creator, the Almighty, has declared in the Quran that besides Him, we have no real protecting friend.

“Lo, Allah! Unto Him belongs the sovereignty

of the heavens and the earth. He quickens and

He gives death. And you have, instead of Allah,

no protecting friend nor helper.”

(al-Quran 9:116)

Allah loves us because we are His children. He is our best helper and protector. There is no friend or protector better than Him, neither in this life nor in the Hereafter. Allah reminds us again and again in the Quran about this reality.

“We are your protecting friends in the life

of this world and in the Hereafter. There you

will have (all) that your souls desire, and

there you will have (all) for which you pray.”

(al-Quran 41:31)

“So establish worship, pay the poor-due, and

hold fast to Allah. He is your Protecting Friend;

a blessed Patron and a blessed Helper!”

(al-Quran 22:78)

“Or have they chosen protecting friends

besides Him? But Allah, He (alone) is the

Protecting Friend. He quickens the dead,

and He is Able to do all things.”

(al-Quran 42:9)

”You cannot escape in the earth, for

besides Allah you have no protecting

friend nor any helper.”

(al-Quran 42:31)

The saying goes: A friend in need is a friend indeed! And that is absolutely true. In today’s material world, this commodity (real friend) is rare. Everybody is looking for his/her own interest. Nobody cares about others whereas God’s religion demands that we care about others more than we care about ourselves.

Here’s what Prophet Solomon said about the real friends:

“Of a thousand whom you know,

one be your friend.”

(Prophet Solomon)

Here’s what Prophet Jesus Christ said about the real friends:

Physician of Soul:

“The friend is a singular thing that is not easily found, but is easily lost. For, the friend will not suffer contradiction against him whom he supremely loves. Beware, be you cautious, and choose not for friend one who loves not him whom you love. Know you what friend means? Friend means nothing but physician of the soul. And so, just as one rarely finds a good physician who knows the sicknesses and understands to apply the medicines thereto, so also are friends rare who know the faults and understand how to guide to good.”

Slayers of Soul:

“But herein is an evil, that there are many who have friends that feign not to see the faults of their friends; others excuse them; others defend them under earthly pretext; and, what is worse, there are friends who invite and aid their friend to err, whose end shall be like to their villainy. Beware that you receive not such men for friends, for that in truth they are enemies and slayers of the soul.”

Love of God:

“Let your friend be such that, even as he wills to correct you, so he may receive correction; and even as he wills that you should leave all things for love of God, even so again it may content him that you forsake him for the service of God. Therefore when you choose you one for friend (for truly he is supremely poor who has no friend at all), see that you consider first, not his fine lineage, not his fine family, not his fine house, not his fine clothing, not his fine person, nor yet his fine words, for you shall be easily deceived. But look how he fears God; how he despises earthly things; how he loves good works; and above all how he hates his own flesh, and so shall you easily find the true friend.”

Key of Paradise:

“But love him as a gift that God has given you, for so shall God adorn (him) with greater favor. Truly I say to you, that he who has found a true friend has found one of the delights of paradise; no, such is the key of paradise.” --- Jesus Christ.

(From the Gospel of Barnabas)

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