A Friend In DEEN Is A Friend InDEED

 

We all pray and ask Allah for what we long for. Some of us are so lucky to still have parents who pray for them every now and then, and others even have friends who pray for them too. Sometimes our prayers are answered directly, other times we get things we didn’t ask for but needed and sometimes we get things we never asked for and never thought we even needed. This category is the best one and only those who are lucky enough get them. 

For me personally, there are times my prayers are answered directly like being protected and given what I ask for. There are also times when my prayers gave me a different thing that I needed but never asked for, like being rejected for a scholarship and redirected to the field of coaching and personal development. Now due to my prayers and those of my loved ones, I got what I never asked for and never thought I needed. Keep reading this blog post and I hope you are feeling well wherever you are pal.

Friends are always a blessing. I believe we all need friends who are there for us on our ups and downs, who cheer us and feel low for us, who champion us and challenge us too. I am someone who has all the friends I need in this life, or l believe that. My Mother – the love of my life – always prays for me to find the best of friends out there. Allah on the other end, answers her prayers and provides me who I need most in my life. Sometimes, I feel down and exhausted and most times I don’t get the reason. But every time in these scenarios, I used to make a friend who was always there for me but I mostly become too busy on them. Due to that, our meetings decrease and it turns to be text messages here and there.

The reason I am sharing all this is because I want you to shuffle your friends and find the person who pushes and pressures you on sides of your life you don’t want to talk about at all. For me, my deen side has always been a secret. I practiced it and I was just an Okay person in that sector. I made friends who always pushed me on the deen side and I listened to them. All these friends used to be male figures in my life who I still regard so high status in my life, but at the same time, I either cut them off or our meetings hasn’t been so regular anymore.

I recently made a new female friend. We only meet three times so far and in all these occasions, she kept on pushing me on my Deen side and showed me ways I had to improve to succeed in this life. Now is when I understand that all my prayers are answered. I push myself harder to succeed and all success starts from the Deen. This is Allah showing me that I needed a big improvement on my spiritual life to succeed in this life. Allah gave me male friends who showed me that but I pushed them away. Now this shows me How Allah is giving me a female friend, knowing that I don’t push away any female friend and in turn, her pushing me on my spiritual side.

My main point here is for any friendships that you ever make, have one who will always remind you of your deen and it will always be hard to lose them or push them away. Remember, A friend in DEEN is a friend INDEED.