With Whom We Must Not Sit

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Three types of people whose companionship slays the heart: sitting with cowards, chatting with women, and sitting with the rich.

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Beware of sitting with the dead. He was asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, who are the dead? He replied, ‘Every rich person whose wealth has made a tyrant of him.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Sitting with people of base desires causes heedlessness of ones faith, and invites Satan thereat.

Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Do not take the people of innovation (bidaa) as companions and do not sit with them lest you be considered one of them in peoples eyes.

Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Beware of sitting with kings and worldly people, for in this there is the erosion of your religion and it will bring about hypocrisy in you, and this is a serious disease from which there is no cure. It will also engender hardheartedness and deprive you of true submission [to Allah]. You must stick to those people who are most like you and the middle classes of people, for it is with them that you find the true jewels.

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Whoever surreptitiously slanders a believing man or a woman, or says about him what is not in him, Allah, the Exalted, will place him on a hill of fire on the Day of Judgment, until he renounces what he said about him.