Question: What is your advice to the young man who took his first steps on a straight path ?
Answer: What advice to this young man, who begins to walk the straight path, is:
- to constantly invoke God, so that the support (up Via this )
- often to read the Qur'ān and reflect on its meaning and His teachings, as the Qur'ān has a great effect on the heart, if you read it carefully and you meditate;
- which strives to stay in the rut of ' obedience, which departed not and is not-nothing, because the Prophet (صلى الله عليه و سلم ) sought refuge in God against the incompetence and laziness;
- with a commitment to attend good companies, and to avoid bad company;
- which remedies his soul, when it suggests: "You time, the journey is long " to advise and strengthen his soul, because Paradise is surrounded by unpleasant things to nafs, while Hell is surrounded by what that stimulates the passions;
- that is far from bad company, even if they previously had been his friends, because the fact of them will stay with the effects on him, as said the Prophet ( صلى الله عليه و سلم ): "Bad company are like the local one forge, in which you burn your clothes, and leaves you with a bad smell . "[Recorded by al-Bukhari and Muslim]
Source: Liqa 'to t al-b ā b al-Maftuh (1571)
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