Choosing friends …

The prophet Mohamed PBUH said:

‘A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes or at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.”

[sahih al-Bukhari, vol 3, #314 & Muslim]

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  • nazeeha

    Subhan Allah what a beautiful analogy. Good friends always bring out the best in you, and encourage the best from you.

    • http://amagdy.com Abdelrahman

      Yes, exactly and that's how Muslim brothers and sisters have to be, whilst picking the good ones among them would be the trick.

  • http://gr8.posterous.com/ Ao.Ohmed

    and if you didn't find them you better be alone because sometimes you cant find them in your place and using the internet may be the only option but its not easy too thank you abdo

    • http://amagdy.com Abdelrahman

      Yes, you're right Ahmed, finding good friends is pretty hard these days and as you said moving to the internet is very deceptive as you can't completely get around the person's character and mostly there are going to be surprises.