Chapter V: Duties Towards Companions and Friends
(2) The second class sinners create the causes of disturbance and make easy its different paths to the people. They do not give any trouble in the mundane affixirs of the people but injure their religion by their actions. Such as sinner is to be humiliated and his connection should be cut off..
(3) Third class sinner. He who commits a great sin by drinking wine, by giving up compulsory duties or doing unlawful things has got light, measure. If a man sees him to commit these sins, it is compulsory on him to prohibit him, be it by beating him or by taking other measure, because it is compulsory to prohibit an evil action. If he is habituated to doit, he should be given advice if there is possibility for him to give up those actions. If there is benefit in treating with him harshly it should be done. If it is useless to give him advice, one should be
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led by his consience to take a suitable measure against him. It has been narrated that a drunkard was beaten several times before the Prophet but still he did not give up drinking wine. One of the companions said : God's curse on this drunkard. The Prophet said : Don't be a helper of the" devil regarding your brother. This means that the devil is sufficient for the man. You should not rebuke him.
CONDITIONS OF FRIENDSHIP
Know, O dear readers, that every man is not fit for friend, ship, The Prophet said : 'A man is upon the religion of his friend.
So let him look with whom he befriends/' Make friendship
Jiaving a look to one!&_charart«>r, conduct wivJ qualities. Make condition to get benefit, of their qualities of your friend and search to get temporal and spiritual benefits. Wealth, name and
â– bargain are the temporal benefits. This is not our object. The benefits of religion are the following (1) to get education and learn action, (2) to get benefit of saying oneself from namg and fame which cause anxiety of mind, (3) to gain wealth to maintain oneself, (4) to seek help in necessary actions, in dangers and dif f icul ties and in many other actions of life, (5) to get blessings of the invocations of a friend, (6) to hope for getting intercession of a friend in the next world. A certain sage of yore said: Increase the number of friends, as every believer has got the right of intercession, and you may hope to fall in the intercession of your friend. God say : Those who have faith and do good works will seek intercession and He will increase His favours on them. To explain this verse, there is a Hadis that believers will make intercession for their friends and God will admit them in Paradise along with them. It has also been said in explaining it that when a man is forgiven, he will get right of intercession for his friends.