when they smile..

“Those who love each other for Allah’s Sake, when they smile at each other, their sins fall from each other, just as the leaves fall from a tree before the winter.”

Mujahid

between the Hands of Allah..

“The slave will be brought between the Hands of Allah – the Exalted – on the Day of Resurrection, and Allah will Say to him: ‘Did you love one of my awliya’, so that I can join you with him?’"

Abu Hurayrah

blessed with..

“If one of you is blessed with affection from his brother, he should hold onto that as tightly as possible, as it is quite rare for one to be blessed with this.”

‘Umar bin al-Khattab

righteous friend..

“Nobody is given anything besides his Islam better than a righteous friend.”

‘Umar bin al-Khattab

True friendship

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." -- La Rochefoucauld

Throughout your life you meet certain people.. Some people you form this instant bond to them, some it takes awhile for you to warm up to them, and others you just don’t wanna be around..
What makes you gravitate towards some people and not others? Why can you spend hours talking to one person and never run out of things to say, yet while with others you struggle to keep a conversation going and flowing about something meaningful.. We all can have “small talk” with anyone, but you cant have deep, intellectual, spiritual, thought provoking, tear jerking conversations with everyone..

Life takes us all in different directions, sometimes leading us away from our greatest friends.. Friends who you may have connected with on a deeper level.. No doubt everything in our lives happen for a reason, although sometimes we lack the wisdom to realize what that reason is.. But those types of friends aren’t easily forgotten, but can they be replaced? I know that sounds extremely harsh, but it’s a fact of life that we humans eventually move on; its something that happens naturally over time, we attempt to find something better.. But is there always something better out there?

I believe once someone was a true friend, then they will always remain a true friend no matter what happens and where life takes them.. Alhamdulilah, I have been extremely blessed with about 7 great friends, who even if I don’t see for months, the moment I’m with them, it feels like we never left. Friends who know all the good and all the bad about me, and yet still talk to me.. Friends who I can hit up at anytime of the night and I know they will be there for me.. Some of these friendships were formed many, many, many years ago, and some that were formed very recently.. Friends who I see and talk to everyday, and some who I never get to see.. Friends who I can just look at and they know exactly what I’m thinking, without having to utter a word.. Friends who know me, the real me..

Alhamdulilah, Alhamdulilah, Alhamdulilah I hope Allah well increase us with love for each other, and keep us as friends in this life and the hereafter..