🍃 The friends whom we have shelved! You receive his message; you don't even open it. Let alone reading or responding to it! He requests something from you, and you place him at the tail of your priority list, although he needs your help. Your excuse is that you know he is not going to get upset with you, and that he will tolerate you because he is your friend, and you are busy; although he sees how you spend time establishing new relationships with "newer" friends! He became like the pale background of the picture for you, to the point that you may see him among new people and you greet them, but you forget to greet him! Immensely hurtful actions by which we heedlessly hurt our friends without paying attention! Even when it comes to Da'wah—a young man whom Allah made you the reason for his guidance—you used to care about him a lot. Today, after he has assumed the right path, and is taken for granted as “the-one-of-us guy”, you placed him on the shelf. He, then, sees that you care about others more than him; although, he is in need for attention now much more than before to retain the straight path. It is not an easy task, yet you are busy with someone who represents a challenge that is more exciting than following up on that friend of yours! The Sirah (life and deeds) of our prophet, “May the Peace and Blessings of Allah Be Upon him!” –the perfect role model– did not leave an issue without treatment, including this issue. Thus, we see him, “May the Peace and Blessings of Allah Be Upon him!”, offering gifts to his old companions, and expressing the love he bears in his heart for them; although the prophetic society was serious, strict, combating on the path of Allah, reserved in speech, and gigantic in its deeds. Then, when Alansar (The people of Madinah who championed the prophet in the early times of Islam.) needed the prophet to affirm and boost the continuity of his love to them; after he distributed the spoils of the Battle of Hunayn on the people, whose hearts were reconciled, and gave none of which to Alansar; he, our prophet, then, generously bestowed his love and gratitude, and his sincere devotion upon them by saying, “Were it not for the hijrah, I would have been one of Alansar. And if the people chose a path while Alansar chose another, I would follow the path of Alansar. May Allah have mercy on the Ansar, and the children of the Ansar, and the grandchildren of the Ansar.” Once again, don't excuse yourself under the pretext of being busy. You are building "new" relationships because you find them more exciting... Loyalty, as well, has its joy, and preserving the rights of brotherhood also is a delight. 📝𝐃𝐫. 𝐄𝐲𝐚𝐝 𝐐𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐛𝐢