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My brothers and sisters, a few moments ago we heard our reciter read the beautiful verses of Suratul Forkhan.

And in it there was a verse where it depicts the regret of the person who had bad company.

On the day of judgment they will regret it.

And from this what is highlighted is the importance of having good friends, a good circle around you.

Whatever that circle does you end up doing something similar.

Whether you like it or not, whether you think you're stronger than them or not.

If that is the circle you have, you will definitely at some point begin to do what they do.

Or you find it easy to do what they do.

Let me give you a quick example.

You and I know that you have to pray every single day.

And you and I know that there are specific times for this prayer.

If you're in a group of people who are all concerned about prayer or the bulk of them are concerned about the prayer,

it becomes so easy, so easy for you to pray.

Because you would be the only one sitting when everyone else is saying, let's pray.

You would feel out of place, but that's your company.

You see how easy it is.

If you were a person for example, who was in a group of, and this is the bad example,

a group of smokers, everyone is smoking Subhanallah.

And you are the only one not smoking.

They say passive smokers are affected even more than the people who have put the cigarettes to their lips.

Is that true?

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