There are two purposes to meet with friends and companions:
1. Spending the time and having company, and this type’s harm outweighs its benefit. The least one could say about associating with this type is that they busy the heart and waste precious time.
2. Associating with those who help one another in piety, truth and patience. Indeed, this type is a prized, precious gain that carries tremendous benefits. However, three types of setback might scale down the benefit one gains from associating with this type: luring each other to say and do improper things, too much association and excessive talking, and this association becoming a habit that gradually brings comfort, but not the religious benefits it started with. Surely, friendship helps either the inner self that commands evil or the heart and soul that are content (with faith), and benefit or fruit this type of association brings forth, if any, are tied to its type. As for good souls, they receive encouragement from the angel, while evil souls are enticed by the devil. Allaah, with his eternal wisdom, has made the good (husbands, persons, statements) for the good (wives, persons, statements) and opposite for the opposite.
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