When any friendship or relationship of yours suffers or strengthens, look at your deeds and realize that these also had an effect.
Our Prophet (salla Allah alayhi wa sallam) said, “I swear by the One in whose Hands is my soul, never do two people who love one another break that relationship except due to a sin that one of them did” [Reported by al-Bukhārī in his Adab al-Mufrad].
This applies to spouses, family and friends. Perfecting our worship of Allah blesses us in every aspect of our life; committing sins has the opposite effect, unless we repent. And of the greatest blessings and joys of life (and, conversely, potentially the greatest pains and source of grief in life) are our spouses, families and friends.
When one’s relations with all of these are good, one’s life is so much sweeter and easier. And when one strengthen’s one’s relationship with the Divine, He blesses all of those human relationships.
May Allah allows us to use each and every incentive to strengthen our bonds with Him!
Love for the sake of Allah means that person reminds you of Allah.
A sign of true love for the sake of Allah
No one really loves for the sake of Allah until they hate for the sake of Allah. Ath-Thawri said: ❝If you love a person for the sake of Allah, and then he does something wrong in Islam and you do not hate him (for what he did) then you never loved for the sake of Allah to start with.❞ [Al-Hilyah (34/7)]
Love For The Sake of Allāh
Q: What does it mean to love for the sake of Allah?
Imam Ahmad: ❝It’s when you don’t love someone for any worldly gain.❞
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✒ Why Friendships Break | Ḥadeeth Benefit
The Messenger of Allāh Ṣallallāhu-‘Alaihi Wa Sallam said:
“No two people are friends/love one another for the sake of Allāh ‘Azza Wa Jall or for the sake of Islām then they split from each other EXCEPT due to a sin newly committed by (either) one of them.”
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When you indulge in Haram, when you fall in love with the Haram, when you eat, sleep, and breathe in the Haram, then the Halal becomes disgusting to you.
