or friendship with them, and do not look at their apparent religious knowledge, scholarly status, or intellectual ability.

After all, any relation or contact with them was only on the basis of the love and servitude of the Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم; when they became blasphemer of the Beloved of Allah, how can your relations still exist with them?’ (Īmān kī Peĥchān, p. 58)

Unĥayn jānā unĥayn mānā na rakhā ghair se kām

لِلّٰهِ الۡحَمۡد! Mayn dunyā say Musalmān gayā

(Ḥadāiq-e-Bakhshish)

Stay away from those who disrespect the Ṣaḥābaĥ

Dear Islamic brothers! Sayyidunā ‘Allāmaĥ Jalāl Uddīn Suyūṭī ash-Shāfi’ī رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has stated in ‘Sharḥ-us-Ṣudūr’, ‘The time of death of a person had come close so he was told to recite the Kalimaĥ Ṭayyibaĥ. He replied, ‘I don’t have the ability to recite it because I used to associate with those people who would tell me to say offensive and insulting words against Sayyidunā Abū Bakr and ‘Umar رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهُم.’ (Sharḥ-us-Ṣudūr, p. 38)

Spiritual link with the Shaikhain helped in the grave

Dear Islamic brothers! From this narration we learn about the great status and rank of Shaikhain Karīmain (Sayyidunā Abū Bakr Ṣiddīq & Sayyidunā ‘Umar رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهُم). When being a friend of those who insult them was the cause of the man not