Friends

Friends

Food: Some friends work like food. They give you energy. Encourage you to do good. Motive you to move ahead. 

Medicine: Some are like medicine. They console you during your difficult times. Help you out. Stand by you. You remember them at the time of hardship. 

Disease: Some are disease. Filled with negative energy. Always backbite about other people. Talk negative. Do negative. Compel you to do negative.

This is how Allah depicted the consequences of having a diseased friend in Qur'an:

وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ ٱلظَّالِمُ عَلَىٰ يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى ٱتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ ٱلرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًۭا

And beware of the Day the wrongdoer will bite his nails in regret and say, “Oh! I wish I had followed the Way along with the Messenger!

يَـٰوَيْلَتَىٰ لَيْتَنِى لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلَانًا خَلِيلًۭا 

Woe to me! I wish I had never taken so-and-so as a close friend.

(Surah Furqan: 27-28)

That was the friend who strayed him from the right path. 
Check your friends! 
Analyse what type of friend you are!

_MariaHamid_