ALLAH IS YOUR ONLY FRIEND: A True Friend; A Protector!

 

Allah Is Your Only Friend;

A True Friend;

A Protector!

(M. Javed Naseem)

“So establish prayer, 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)

As the saying goes, “a friend in need is a friend indeed”, only the hard times and troubles tell you who your real and sincere friend is. You may know thousands of people and consider many of them as your friends, but only a 'test' can evaluate your real friends. Generally speaking, you have only one or two real friends. The rest of them are just for passing time.

“Of a thousand whom you know, one be your friend.” ---- (Prophet Solomon)

A man is known by the company he keeps. It means your friends and companions define your character. Bad people will bring bad name to you and the society will consider you as one of them – or just like them – as you often hang out with them. On the other hand, the company of God-fearing and righteous people will help you find the straight path to connect with your Almighty Creator – Allah.

This world is a temporary affair – a passing show of circus or a drama – and you are here to play your role in it. The most important thing, and the beautiful thing at the same time, is that you make your own choices. You select the role you want to play; and you play it with all liberty and freedom. It is absolutely voluntary – no compulsion at all. But don't forget that at the end of this drama or circus show, there will be evaluation and accountability of your choices and actions. You will be judged and asked why you made the choices you made in this world?

وَما ٱلْحَيَاةُ ٱلدُّنْيَا إِلاَّ مَتَاعُ ٱلْغُرُورِ

“… The life of this world is but

comfort of illusion...”

(al-Quran 3:185)

With every role people choose to play, there comes a 'How to' book of instructions. Like every other game in this world, you are also required to play your role by some rules and regulations. If you don't break the rules and play your part as a righteous person, you are bound to succeed. And the Almighty will reward you with a place in Paradise. That's what this world is all about!

وَهَـٰذَا صِرَاطُ رَبِّكَ مُسْتَقِيماً قَدْ فَصَّلْنَا ٱلآيَاتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَذَّكَّرُونَ

“This is the path of your Lord, a straight path.

We have detailed Our revelations for a

people who take heed.”

(al-Quran 6:126)

إِنَّ هَـٰذِهِ تَذْكِرَةٌ فَمَن شَآءَ ٱتَّخَذَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِ سَبِيلاً

“Surely this is a Reminder. Let him who will,

then take a straight path to his Lord.”

(al-Quran 73:19)

In the Gospel of Barnabas, Prophet Jesus (the son of Mary) has offered a beautiful description or a definition of a real friend. He calls him a 'Physician of Soul'.

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.”--- (Jesus Christ)

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“Everything that may hinder you from

serving God, cast it from you as man casts

away everything that hinders his sight.”

--- (Jesus Christ)

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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.” --- (Jesus Christ)

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.” --- (Jesus Christ)

Key of Paradise:

“But love him as a gift that God has given you, for so shall God adorn (him) with greater favour. 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)

(Note: Quotes of Jesus Christ were copied from the Gospel of Barnabas.)

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