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This is not going to be a

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a laissez This is not going to be a long talk in the depth and I hope to make it as interactive as possible, not among yourselves, but between yourselves and me.

So we try to cut down the conversation.

In Shalav Kana.

The title of this talk, as it was given to me, was the importance of company. in

the title of this talk as it was given to me was the importance of company. And in-law, I'm going to start with a Hadith of the Prophet

of Allah Rariasalim, and as we continue throughout this talk, that one hadith is the central idea that I'm trying to get across.

And the haith is, the messenger of Allah, Allah Allahi Sam says, al-U-Au al-Ua-Dahidu kum man yu-hahli.

What that means in simple English is a person depends on the religion of their friend.

A person depends on the religion of their friend. A person depends on the religion of their friend. So watch out

each of you who you make a friend, who you make friends with. So in other words, it doesn't matter if you're knowledgeable or righteous or religious or not,

your downfall will not come from you necessarily, it will come from who?

Your friend, right?

So in this very powerful Khadid, the messenger of Allah

so what said, gave us religious advice,

and the advice doesn't have anything to do with worship

or spending time learning religion or anything, the essential advice is who you make friends with.

So it's the center, it's one of the most essential things in our religion, who you make friends with.

I'll give you a small example about friendship. I met this person a couple of months ago who was actually in jail a few times. He had been arrested a few times for trying to rob and for drug dealing and things like this.

And one of his friends was Muslim, one of his friends.

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