The Etiquette’s with the Acquaintances Part One

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السَّلامْ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَ بَرَكات

Apologies for the lack of updates, illness plus an accumulation of other responsibilities had me tied up.
Without further ado, let’s continue on to the etiquette’s with the acquaintance, I found this interesting (albeit scary at times), but still very beneficial alhumdulillah.

The Etiquette’s with the Acquaintances

Beware of your acquaintances, for you will receive only evil from those whom you do not know intimately.
Your friends will render help to you, those who are completely unknown to you will not thwart you, but all evil will come upon you through those acquaintances who only express friendship with their tongues.
So reduce the number of such acquaintances as far as possible.

When you are associated with acquaintances, in an academic institution, or big mosque, or small mosque, or town, or market, you must not despise any one of them, for you do not know, perhaps he is better than you.

Do not consider them great in their worldly condition, lest you be destroyed; because the world has little worth in the estimation of Allah , and all that is in it is also of little value; so whenever worldly men appear to be great in your mind, you fall away form the eyes of Allah .
Guard yourself against using your religion in order to achieve some of their worldly possessions. Anyone who did this became insignificant in their eyes and was deprived of their possession.

If your acquaintances are hostile to you do not face them with enmity, for you are unable to be patient when they require you; so your religious nature will disappear in their enmity towards you; thus your difficulties with them will be prolonged.
On the other hand if they respect you, praise you in your presence and express their friendship for you, do not trust them, for if you inquire into the real nature of this, you will not find even one percent of them sincere in their behaviour.

Do not expect that their behaviour will be the one and the same in public and in private. Do not be astonished if they rebuke you in your absence and do not be angry for that, because should you be fair, you would find similar behaviour in yourself even concerning your friends and relatives, and indeed concerning your teachers and parents, in their absence you will speak of things concerning them that you would not mention in their presence.

Continue soon inshaAllah 

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