The Importance of Choosing Friend

In the name of Allah , The most merciful and The most gracious. I begin my story of The Importance of Choosing Friend.

There was a man named Uqbah Ibn Abi Mu'aith . He's very close and near to Rasulullah SAW. He always changes opinion with Rasulullah SAW. And always be whereever Rasulullah SAW goes. In that time , he was not a muslim yet.

Once upon a time , he asked Rasulullah SAW to go to his house and have some supper. This shows how great the relationship of Rasulullah SAW and Uqbah. Then Rasulullah SAW goes to his house. Rasulullah SAW says to himself. "I will use this chance , this golden opportunity to make him embrace Islam" . Then Uqbah says , "O Rasulullah . Eat those foods". And Rasulullah SAW says . "I won't eat this food before you say The Syahadah. You must believe that Allah is the only God that exists and I'm His final Messenger". 

Uqbah does say The Syahadah. "I do believe Allah is my one and only God and none other deity exists except Allah alone and you're His final Messenger". Then Rasulullah eats the foods that have been served.

And Uqbah used to have friend named Ubayy.
Ubayy was absent on that occasion. But when he was informed of what had happened, he said to ‘Uqbah: ‘You have renounced the religion of your forefathers?’ 

Uqbah said: ‘By Allah, I did not. I had a man in my house who refused to eat my food unless I bore witness to him and I was ashamed to let him leave my house without him eating, and so I bore witness to him and he ate my food’. 

Ubayy said to him: ‘I will never be happy with you until you go to him, spit on his face and step on his neck’. 

‘Uqbah did just that, and the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, said to him: 

‘If I ever meet out of Mecca, I will behead you’. 

‘Uqbah was later killed while in captivity at Badr. As for Ubayy ibn Khalaf, the Prophet, Allah bless him and give him peace, killed him in a duel at Uhud.  

Said al-Dahhak: “When ‘Uqbah spat on the face of the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, his spit split into two and flew back on ‘Uqbah’s face. This caused both his cheeks to burn and the scars resulting from this burning remained visible until he died”.

And the lesson we can learn here is. Make sure you choose your friend wisely. Find friend who can think postively and show you the right path. We can see how Uqbah deceived by Ubayy very easily. So make sure strengthen our Iman and may Allah forgive us and grant us goodness. May Allah guide every single of us. May Allah be please with all our good deeds that we have done. Biizdnillah. Jazakumullahu khairan kathira.