Question:
AssalamuAlaykum,
Please keep names in this question private. I’m [private] and [private] is my close friend. I need to know if I should distance myself from him. Not out of hate/anger, but because I think it may be better for both of us. I’ll do istikhara but my question is the following. Please ask Mawlana to do an istikhara, and forgive me if asking this is stepping out of line, but even if I had a definite result from my istikhara prayers, the decision is of so much importance that I need something like Mawlana’s istikhara to back it up. This is especially because I have a very bad problem of doubting myself later on even if I’d done the right thing. If Mawlana is backing my decision, I will have a tool to reject this false self-doubt and lack of confidence and decisiveness in my actions.
AssalamuAlaykum.
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
It is impermissible to break off relations between Muslim brothers more than three days unless there is real fear of inflicting or receiving harm of any kind. If the latter is the case then yes, take your distance and in either case trust in Allah.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
