One Of The Most Important Things We Must Do, Which Sadly Many People Neglect, Is That We Should Avoid Bad Company. People We Should Avoid Taking As Friends Those Who Speak Too Freely, Who Miss Salah, Who Do NotDress Modestly, Who Backbite, Slander Etc. The Company Of Such People Is Poison; Just Even Sitting And Talking With Them Will Lead One To Commit Sins. Just As A Person Who SitsFor A Long Time With A Perfume Seller Begins To Smell Nice, And A Person Who Sits By A Gutter Cleaner Begins To Smell Awful, Similarly A Person Who Spends Time In The Company Of The Wicked Eventually Gets Affected Badly By Them. Rather, We Should Seek Out Pious Friends Who Fear ALLAH Taa'la And Who Have The Qualities Of Humility, Charity, Compassion, Modesty And Knowledge. If We Sit With Them We Will Always Benefit And They Will Be A Means For Us To Get Closer To ALLAH Taa'la! The Prophet Sal Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam Said, The Case Of The Good Companion And The Bad Companion Is Like That Of The Seller Of Musk And The Blower Of The Bellows (Iron-Smith). As For The Seller Of Musk, He Will EitherGive You Some Of The Musk, Or You Will Purchase Some From Him, Or At Least You Will Come Away Having Experienced Its Good Smell. Whereas The Blower Of The Bellows WillEither Burn Your Clothing, Or At Least You Will Come Away Having Experienced Its Repugnant Smell. (Al-Bukhari And Muslim) Remember: All Friends Will Be Enemies Of One Another On That Day (Day Of Judgment) Except Those Of The Virtuous. (Qur’an 43:67)