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Are you really my friend?

Updated: Apr 18, 2020



By Asma bint Shameem


I sit with you all day …I spend all my time with you I reach out to you when I am bored…or have nothing to do I call you to have fun or just hang around I call you when I need a shoulder….I call you when I am down But are you really my friend? That’s my question to you Something you need to answer….if you are really true Do you stop me from all evil and prevent me from all vice… Or do you assist me in it with your immoral advice? Do you take me to the Masjid and remind me it’s time to pray… Or do you say, ‘You can pray later….it’s perfectly okay’? When we spend time together… are there angels in the room… Or do we trespass limits where only devils dare to loom? Is our talk filled with that which pleases the Most High… Or is it that which angers Him….something sure to annoy? Do you ask me to sin along with you….not leave you to sin alone? Have I mastered through you the ways of sin? Has my evil grown? If I start to backbite, do you stop me midway Or do you add a word or two, adding spice to what I say Do you encourage me….when I try to be good Or do you make FUN of me….just as a Kaafir would? When I walk with you in Hijaab….am I a source of embarrassment… Or when I pray in public places, is that your predicament? Do you remind me of the importance…of the Qur’aan and Sunnah? Do you guide me to the Way of Success….Salvation…and Jannah? Do we fast while others eat and drink…do we pray while others sleep… Or are we the ones whose company no Pious would like to keep? Have you taught me what I need to know…or have you pushed me away From the very things that can save me on Judgment Day When my deeds will be shown to me….when I see my final end Will I then thank Allah for having you as a friend? Will I curse you when it is time…to get up from my grave “I wish I never met you!” ….Is that what I will rave? "Oh woe to me! Had I not taken you as a friend!" “What evil company…..to lead me to such an end!” On the Day of Judgment….amid chaos, confusion and disgrace You too, will run away from me….you too, will turn your face Will I then know…..to my dismay….the bitter reality Will I then realize ….that you are in fact my enemy? If you really are my friend….if that’s what you really say Then you will care about my ‘book’….the one I'll hold that Day You will help me to fill it….with goodness and piety And from sin and transgression….to keep it empty You will aid me to do good…..advise me if am wrong You will assist me in righteousness…You will make my Deen strong You will not take offence if I enjoin what is good And forbid what’s evil…..That’s the right of Brotherhood And if, truly, for the sake of Allaah….we love one another Under the shade of His Throne is where we will meet each other I will then, thank you for your company, advice and good counsel And the time we spent together…for all that I will be grateful Then, if I were to enter Heaven I would look for you and ask… “Where is my companion….my true friend of the past? In Jannah we will abide…there we will be together For…you were MY TRUE FRIEND….for ever and ever. “And keep yourself patiently with those who call on their Lord morning and afternoon, seeking His Face, and let not your eyes overlook them, desiring the pomp and glitter of the life of the world, and obey not him whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance, and whose affair (deeds) has been lost.” (Surat Al-Kahf: 28)

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