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Alhamdulillah, all praise is due to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.

He is worthy of being praised for who He is and He is worthy of being praised for what

He has done.

And we seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our souls and the consequences of our actions.

Whenever Allah chooses to guide, none can misguide and whomever is misguided cannot be guided

back except by Him.

I bear witness and I testify that none is worthy of worship other than Allah Jalla Jalaluhu

and I bear witness and I testify that Muhammad Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam is his final

prophet and his most perfect worshipper.

As to what follows, dear brothers and sisters, Allah has created mankind to be a social

creature.

In fact, the word insan, according to our scholars at the Arabic language, one of the interpretations

the word insan comes from aunts, from finding comfort in others.

So insan is called insan because by default insan does not live alone, insan lives with friends

with family with community and we live in societies and form bonds with each other and these bonds

they benefit us and at times they harm us.

So our sharia has come, the Qur'an and Sunnah has come with guidelines to tell us who

to be friend and how to be friend and what are the rights of the friend.

So in today's khutbah, I will remind myself and all of us what are the obligations and

the etiquette, what are the mannerisms and even the blessings of having good friends for

the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.

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