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(6) Fray for your friend in his life time and even after his death: As you like to pray for yourself and the members of your family, so you should pray for those after death of your friend with whom your friend had connection. The Prophet said : If a man prays for his friend in his absence, the angels says, Similar prayer is for you. In another narration God says : O My servant, I will accept your prayer in your matter. There is in Hadis : If a * man prays for his friend, it is better accepted than that for himself. The Prophet said : If man prays for his friend in his absence, it is not rejected . A good friend will follow you after your death with the angels, as there is a Hadis : When a man dies, the people say : What thing he has left behind, but the angels say :
What actions he has sent in advance ? They are glad for his good actions, they ask about his condition and intercede for him . The Prophet said : A- dead man in grave is like a drowning man in water. As a drowning man catches whatever he gets to save his life, so a dead man remains anxious to get the prayer of father, children, brothers, friend and near relatives. The prayer of a living man enters into the grave of a dead man like a hill of light.
A certain sage said : The prayer of a living man for the dead is like a present. The angel takes a handker-chief of one bundle of light and comes to the dead man and says : This is present to you from that friend of yours, this has come from that relative of yours. He then becomes pleased with it as a living man becomes pleased with a present.

(7) Waf a and Ikhlas. Wafa means to remain firm on the rights of friendship , to keep it lasting till the death of friend and to keep it even after his death with his wife, children and friends and relatives and to take care of them. Ikhlas means to fulfill the duties of friendship selflessly , for the sake of God. The object of friendship seflessly for the sake of God. The object of friendship for the sake of God is to get benefit in the next world. The Prophet said that seven persons will get shade under the shade of the Throne on the Resurrection Day. There are two persons out of them who love each other for the sake for God. A $fertain woman once came to the Prophet who showed respect to rier:Qr> being asked the reason, the Prophet said : This woman used &** come to our house during the life time of Khadija. To honou',r \}? r

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