being friend with non muslim

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Assalamu alaykum
Imam sahib my question is that can you make someone friend who is a non muslim and actually his/her mom was muslim before and converted to another religion can you be there child's friend..If they bring food over my house with much love can i take it......or can i talk with the mother about different things......

I hope you will answer my question more clearly....


Thank you

[Imam]

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All Praise be to Allah who is the Lord of the Worlds, and may Endless Blessings be showered upon His Most Beloved, and Final Messenger of Islam, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa (Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa aalihi wa Sallam)



If I have understood your question correctly, then strictly speaking you cannot make friends with someone on the basis that you know their mother.


However, if you have been introduced to them, you see them regularly, you have the need to speak to them, they enter your house while other people you know are there, then there is nothing wrong in speaking to them, as you may not befriend a ghayr mahram. This is haram.


Apart from the situations mentioned above in your case (and there are others), it is prohibited to make friends with the opposite sex, merely for personal reasons.


I hope that you understand what our religion requires of us, and make du'a to Allah the Almighty that he excells our knowledge, so that we know what is right from wrong.



Jazak'Allah for your question.



Wallahu A'lamu Biththawaab


M. Waseem Ashrafi

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