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Q Assalamu Alaikum. Firstly, I’d like to thank you and your team at aboutislam for the wonderful collection of posts because it has helped me a lot.
For a while, I was a Muslim by name but sadly I was super astray. I did not pray. I engaged in haram acts and associated myself with people who valued the wrong things. I had a lot of guy friends and limits while talking where often trespassed.
Alhamdulillah, by the Grace of the Most Merciful, He made me realize how wrong and deluded I was last Ramadan. I have been trying to change my ways since then.
While I do recognize that majority of the problem was my fault alone and that I should not have let all these things happen, I also have realized that part of the problem is that I underestimated the influence of close company around me. I chose to identify myself with a wrong crowd that harbored wrong values and those values automatically started harboring in myself.
I now do not message or contact them without a proper reason and have trained myself to disassociate from them mentally as well. However, from time to time some of those friends have messaged me. I just delete it straight away and I have blocked some persistent ones.
There is a back thought that I get every time I do this wondering if I am being harsh. Am I being extremist or is this the right thing to do?
As-Salaamu Alaikum dear sister,
You are right in the sense that a company will have a profound effect on you as a person, and will influence you greatly.
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