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A Good Friend in Islam /33

Focusing on this further, Allah in the holy Quran says
(Surah Al Furqan Verse 27-29):
يِنتْيَل ىَتَليَو اَي . اًليِبس ِلوسَّرلا َعم َ ُتذَختا ينَتْيل َ اَي ُلوُقَي ِهْيَدَي ىَلع ُمِلاظلا ضَعَي َمو َي َو "
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" اًلوذَخ ِناَسْنِإلِل ُناَطيَّشلا َناَكَو يِنءاَج ْذِإ َدعَب رْكذلا نَع ينَّلَضأ ْدقَل اليلَخ اًناَلف ْذِختَأ ْمَل
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“On that Day the wrongdoer will bite his hands saying:
Oh! Would that I had only taken the pathway alongside
the Prophet. Oh! Would that I had never chosen so-and-so
for my companion. He was the one who led me astray
from the admonition even after it had reached me. Shaitan
is ever treacherous to man.”
As can be seen, in the above mentioned Verse, God
recognizes the need of a good friend and its importance in
a person’s life. The most relevant element of this Verse is
the “choosing of a good friend”. According to the Holy
Quran, friends (or companions) have a tendency to lead an
individual astray. What the Quran said more than 1400
years ago has been validated by the research of Sieving,
Perry and Williams (2000) according to which individuals
whose friends were involved in drug or alcohol
consumption showed a significantly increase consumption
of the same.
On the same grounds, Salmivalli (2010) explained that
victimization and bullying in schools is a group process
implying that companions get together to make life
difficult for others around them. Such are examples of
friends against whom the Quran has warned the believers
and has stated that it is better for a Muslim to make the
Holy Prophet his/her companion rather than those who
will lead him/her astray.