Friendship and Islam

Friendship is the sweet relation which is based on the following attributes are as mentioned below:

1. A good desire for a person (friend)

2. Sympathy or fellow feelings

3. Honesty, loyalty or sincerity

4. Mutual understanding

Islam has proposed some main points in favor of the Friendship are as mentioned below:

· Always love your friends and become a source of love for them

· A person is very lucky whose friends or relatives love him & the person indeed is unfortunate if his friends or relatives run away from him.

· It is mentioned that a person is not rich who has money but who has friends and good company.

Hazrat Ali (a.s.) said very beautiful words about friendship as mentioned below:

‘He indeed is unfortunate who does not have any friends, but worse is the one who has friends, but loses them.’

In Holy Quran Allah mentioned that:
‘The friends shall on that day (of judgment) be enemies of each other except those who guard against evil.’[Zukhruf : 67].

From the last meaning of verses of Quran, it is cleared that there is much importance to have good company (of friends). And a wise saying is that a man is known by his company he keeps. So one should preferred to make few but good friends. And any relation is based on the single thing which is sincerity or loyalty. A real friend is one who keeps you away from the bad acts and encourages on the discussion of Islam. All we need is to make a friendship with our religion so that we get the ways to live our life. One can improve his knowledge and information by Online Quran learning. Distance learning has now solved all the issues of distance and time, where ever you are can arrange a time for your religious learning. All of us have completed Quran but a few of us has completed it with proper translation and meaning, so one should preferred to read it thoroughly. May God bless us with the knowledge of Islam!