Dawat-e-Islami in its global Madani Markaz, Faizan-e-Madinah. When we reached Faizan-e-Madinah, a Muballigh was delivering a speech. He was dressed in white clothes with a brown shawl over his shoulders and a green turban on his head. He also had a fist-length beard. I had never seen such a refulgent & luminous face before. The attraction and refulgence of the Muballigh’s face captured my heart and I therefore joined the Madani environment of Dawat-e-Islami. For the past two years I have been performing I’tikaf in the global Madani Markaz, Faizan-e-Madinah Karachi (Bab-ul-Madinah). اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ!       I have also grown my beard according to the Sunnah.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب              صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! Bad company harms both, irrespective of whether the elder or the younger, but compared to the elder, bad company can be extremely harmful to children because they cannot distinguish good from bad at a young age. If they are not given Madani upbringing since their childhood, they become wanderer, stubborn, interest-taker, bribe-taker, deviant, non-Salah-offering person, gambler, drinker, immodest, fashionable, lover of watching films and dramas, disobedient to their parents and have many other bad habits and earn bad name for their parents and family. Therefore parents should take time for the Madani Tarbiyyat of their children along with their better education. They should play their role in making their world and the Hereafter both better and making them respectable members of the society by telling them from time to time the advantages of good company and the disadvantages of the company of bad friends.

As can be read from the parable below when the wise father realized that his son was having bad company, he did not become heedless, but rather advised him. How he tried to advise his son. Let’s listen to a parable about it and try to act upon the Madani pearls obtained from it.  

Impact of bad company

A Madani child, belonging to a righteous family, started having the company of bad friends. When his father became aware of this, he made him