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A Good Friend in Islam /33

                  Focusing on this further, Allah in the holy Quran says
               (Surah Al Furqan Verse 27-29):
                 يِنتْيَل   ىَتَليَو اَي . اًليِبس      ِلوسَّرلا  َعم َ    ُتذَختا  ينَتْيل َ    اَي    ُلوُقَي  ِهْيَدَي   ىَلع ُمِلاظلا ضَعَي َمو َي  َو "
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                 " اًلوذَخ   ِناَسْنِإلِل   ُناَطيَّشلا      َناَكَو  يِنءاَج ْذِإ َدعَب رْكذلا نَع ينَّلَضأ ْدقَل اليلَخ اًناَلف ْذِختَأ  ْمَل
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                  “On that Day the wrongdoer will bite his hands saying:
               Oh!  Would  that  I  had  only  taken  the  pathway  alongside
               the Prophet. Oh! Would that I had never chosen so-and-so
               for  my  companion.  He  was  the  one  who  led  me  astray
               from the admonition even after it had reached me. Shaitan
               is ever treacherous to man.”
                  As  can  be  seen,  in  the  above  mentioned  Verse,  God
               recognizes the need of a good friend and its importance in
               a person’s life. The most relevant element of this Verse is
               the  “choosing  of  a  good  friend”.  According  to  the  Holy
               Quran, friends (or companions) have a tendency to lead an
               individual  astray.  What  the  Quran  said  more  than  1400
               years ago has been validated by the research of Sieving,
               Perry and Williams (2000) according to which individuals
               whose  friends  were  involved  in  drug  or  alcohol
               consumption showed a significantly increase consumption
               of the same.
                  On the same grounds, Salmivalli (2010) explained that
               victimization  and  bullying  in  schools  is  a  group  process
               implying  that  companions  get  together  to  make  life
               difficult  for  others  around  them.  Such  are  examples  of
               friends against whom the Quran has warned the believers
               and has stated that it is better for a Muslim to make the
               Holy  Prophet  his/her  companion  rather  than  those  who
               will lead him/her astray.
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