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?
Mocking people is forbidden, based on the Almighty's saying: {O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people; perhaps they may be better than them} (Quran 49:11), and the Prophet's (PBUH) saying: "It is enough evil for a person to despise his Muslim brother."
It is advised to cease mocking others, be patient with the harm from friends, and counsel them. If they do not respond, then distance yourself from their company and abandon them gracefully. This means ceasing association without harshness or harm. For one who fears harm from their company, abandonment is better than closeness. And be eager to sit with the righteous, attend gatherings of knowledge, and listen to seminars, for in that there is tranquility, mercy, and the remembrance of Allah.
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