Friendship and Company
75 questions
Is it considered forbidden hypocrisy in Islam to be courteous to people whom I cannot bear to sit with due to actions or characteristics they display?
Is it necessary to neglect one's religion or to continue in isolation to maintain adherence to religion and avoid bad language, in light of friends distancing themselves because of this?
How should a woman act when she is pulled in different directions by advocates of good, media, education, bad friends, family, and the general atmosphere surrounding her?
Should the student continue to sit with his friends who look at and talk about girls at school, or should he leave them?
What is the ruling on dealing with those who are alienated from religious commitment, who mock them and invite them to disobedience, and how should we deal with them?
Is what I am doing now an act of disobedience to God and a cause of His wrath, and what is the method of repentance and dealing with this situation?
Where and how can one find and identify righteous companionship, especially if one is not skilled at socializing with people?
How should one deal with a friend who was upon the methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah, then embraced Ash'ari thought, and began praising certain Sufi domains, and denying the torment of the grave, while refusing advice and merely stating that the response is found in Ash'ari and Sufi books? And is conveying the conversation that took place between the questioner and this friend to other friends, with the intention of complaining, warning, or grumbling, considered backbiting?
Is the love a female student feels toward her female teacher considered love for the sake of Allah or love with Allah?
What is the ruling on abandoning friends who are characterized by mockery, knowing that the questioner possesses the same characteristic and fears falling in with similar friends?
Is it permissible to accompany a group of people who use foul language, backbite, and smoke, knowing that the scarcity of righteous companions leads to isolation, which negatively affects my personality and my desire to build relationships?
What is the religious ruling on avoiding a friend who talks about her home's secrets and the secrets of her brothers' wives, divulges the secrets of those who confide in her, meddles in others' affairs, and creates problems, and to suffice with only greeting her when seen while avoiding talking to her on the phone?
How do I deal with my righteous husband who receives lewd pictures from his friend, and is saddened by it, yet refuses to cut ties with him?
How can one abandon someone whose negative influence on religion is feared?
Is it permissible to ostracize a colleague at work and not greet him with "peace" (Salam) in order to avoid his troubles, after reconciliation attempts have failed?
Is the separation of two friends due to one of them being preoccupied with preparing a master's thesis, while affection and prayers remain between them, considered a punishment, or does it fall under the nature of separation as happened to the Companions after Medina?
Is it permissible to abandon a manager who plots schemes and corrupts religious and worldly affairs, especially since he issued a circular prohibiting the mention of ideological thoughts inside the classroom and accused teachers of teaching jihad and niqab?
What is the ruling on living with two people, one of whom provokes others with words, demeans them, and associates with those who abandon prayer, and the other imitates disbelievers, neglects Fajr prayer, and is characterized by a lack of manners?
Is refraining from greeting someone to avoid their ill speech, after a previous quarrel, considered a severance of ties?
Is a person sinful if they distance themselves from their Muslim brother who refuses to return greetings and deliberately insults, in order to preserve their dignity and avoid problems, knowing that they have tried to mend the relationship without success?
Is it permissible to eat with someone who abandons prayer?
Is it permissible to abandon friends whom I have relied upon in my affairs without first relying upon Allah, or must I return to them after repenting from this act?
What is the ruling on shunning a religious young man and mosque imam who does not pray Dhuhr and Asr on time, and sleeps through them only to combine them before Maghrib, and spends his nights in backbiting and amusement with irreligious youth, especially after all means of advice with him have been exhausted to no avail?
Is the questioner accountable for the sin of partaking with those sitting in sin, knowing that they do not pray and that his mother seeks help from a soothsayer?