What is real friendship?

https://youtu.be/EZ87BmDaT9Q

Auto-generated transcript:

My brother says that I'm walking in Midnegah Park. They have cleaned the snow on some of the main roads but not on the others. And the temperature has now dropped a bit so some of the snow is melting but it makes the footing extremely treacherous. Slipping and falling is not a great idea. So I'm not going there. I want to talk to you actually in response to some questions that people ask me about friends. And this is a big thing. This is, you know, friends are important, friends are things that people are proud of having and in some cases justifiably. So who is a friend? What is a friend? What must I look for or look in? What makes a good friend a good friend? What are some people, what are some qualities because of which I should reassess my friends and see whether I should continue to be friends with them or not. And I don't want to make it sound like a very selfish exercise when I'm picking and choosing for my benefit. I want to also focus here on what kind of a friend am I to others because that's very important for us to remember because imagine this goes out to frankly I don't even know how many people in the world because if you look at our global Google footprint it covers every country except Greenland. And no one asked me why it doesn't cover Greenland but because I don't know. But the point is that there are others who are going to be listening to this, not only yourself. So what are they as a result of listening to this podcast, what are they going to be saying about you as their friend? Will they want to retain you as a friend? Will they say well you know what I have a beautiful friend or are they going to say oh boy good thing I was I got warned pre-warmed is pre-armed and so time to send Mr. or Ms. so and so to the sandbox. So think about that. Now talking of friends none better than the Kitab of Allah as for advice and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said al-akhid la. Al-akhid la is the plural of khalil. In the Arabic language there are many different words to denote and to describe friendship. It's not just one word and al-khalil is a friend who is the closest. You have Zamil, Rafiq, you know in other words but al-khalil is somebody who is a dear friend to the extent that there are no secrets between the two of you. It's a friend that completely has your back. It's a friend who quite literally will if necessary sacrifice their lives to save yours. It's a friend whose money, assets, everything is there if you ever need it and I'm not exaggerating. I'm not being poetic. Alhamdulillah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave me friends like that. I had one he passed away and that's the one of the biggest not one I think that is the only one Allah gave me has given me a beautiful life free from tragedy. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. But this is one tragedy that I a hole in my heart that will never fill and that is the hole that my dear, dear, dear friend Bhatti Swaras left in my heart when he died. Let's see, maybe I will tell you his story why I said that. So to me that's a friend. That's a khalil. Khalil is somebody like that who has his, who has your back. Now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Al-akhila yawma eezin ba'duhum li ba'din adu illa al-muttaqeen. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Al-akhila those who were your closest friends, your absolutely dearest friends, who knew everything about you, who always claimed to love you, these friends on the day of judgment, yawma eezin, ba'duhum li ba'din adu, they will be enemies to one another. Please notice Allah is not saying they will ignore each other, they will not talk to each other, they will not recognize each other, all of which would be bad enough. Imagine somebody who is so close to me, such a dear, dear friend of mine refuses to recognize me, will not come if I call him, will not return my salaam if I say salaam. How painful that would be but that wouldn't, that still not,