[4:139-4:140] Those who take disbelievers for friends instead of believers - do they desire power with them? Truly, power belongs altogether to God. * It has been revealed to you in the Book that: 'When you hear God's signs being disbelieved in and mocked, do not sit with them until they engage in some other talk, for otherwise you would surely be like them'. God will gather the hypocrites and disbelievers, all together, into Hell.
Whoever clings to a created thing has sought refuge to something other than the One Who can provide it for him. He relies on a place that will provide no shelter and has fallen into a bottomless abyss of error, its ruse powerful. Do they desire power with those who have been stricken with the lowly position of coming to be? How can they have any power to determine the truth? Whoever has no power attached to him, how can he extend power to anyone else?
It is said. 'We do not know what part of their condition is more ugly: seeking power while they are themselves in the lowly position of subjugation and held in the grasp, or assuming or imagining it is from something other than God?'
It is said anyone who seeks something from anything other than His Face, failure (ikfāq) is the end of his effort (jahdihi). Whoever desires wealth in regions of want, being reduced to poverty (imlāq) is the outcome of his toil (kaddihi).
It is said that if they had been guided to finding power, their objectives would not have been diverted to those who have nothing in their hands in the matter.
Truly, power belongs altogether to God: The power is of two kinds: eternal power, which belongs to God by attribution, and a power of originating by which He (s) chooses whom He wills, which belongs to Him as an estate and is a kindness from it.
It has been revealed to you in the Book...: Do not be neighbors to the lords of alienation, for the darknesses of their souls reach out to your hearts upon your seeking the fragrance of what they have rejected in their souls. Whomever people have come to partner with, they sit with them. The sitting companions of those who are in intimacy are those who seek intimacy and the sitting of those who are in darkness are those who are unsociable.
It is said emigrating from the enemies of the Real is obligatory, as is opposing adversaries. Detaching from them is a debt to be paid. To rely on the companions of heedlessness is to knock on the door of separation.
For otherwise you would surely be like them: The clearest proof of a man's secret being is the companionship of those whom he associates with and the relationship to those whom he befriends. Like is tied to like and the branch extends outward from the trunk.