Chapter V: Duties Towards Companions and Friends
God and keep company with each other for God (5) one who remembers God in loneliness and as result his eyes shed tears, (6)
a man who does not respond to the evil temptation of a beautiful woman coming from a respectable family and says : I fear God, and (7) a charitable person who keeps his charity secret, so much so that his left hand does not know what his right hand gives.
The Prophet : If a man meets another for love of God and hoping to meet Him, an angel proclaims from behind him : You are blessed, your foot steps are blessed, paradise for you is blessed.
The Prophet said : Once a man wished to meet his friend for God.
God sent secretly an angel to him who asked him : What do you intend? He said: I intend to meet my brother. He asked him: Have you got any necessity to him ? He said : No The angel said : Has he done any benefit to you ? He said : No. The angel said : Then why are you going to meet him ? He said : I love him for the sake of God. The angel said : God sent me to you with this news that "He loves you as you love him and that Paradise is sure for you.
The Prophet said : Love for God and hate for God are the firmest faith. For this reason, a man should have enemies so that he may hate them and should have friends so that he may love them.
Once God revealed to a Prophet: You have hastened the happiness of Paradise for you for your renunciation of the world, You have got honour near Me for having renunciated the world to come to Me. Have you done enemity for Me or have you made friendship for Me ? The Prophet said : O God, let no sinner do any benefit to me, as my love may grow for him. God revealed to Jesus Christ: If you do alone the divine services of the inmates of the heaven and earth but do not love for Me and hate for Me, it will do no benefit to you. Jesus Christ said : Be dear to God by having enmity against the sinners and be near to God by keeping away from them and seek pleasure of God by displeasing them.
They asked him : O the Spirit of God, with whom shall we keep company? He said : With such people who remind you of God if you see them, whose words increase your actions and who arouse eagerness in your mind for the actions of the next world when you see them. Once God revealed to Moses : O son of Imran, if your heart is awake, seek friends for you . The friend who does not meet you with My pleasure is your enemy.
God revealed to David: O David, why are you in loneliness after giving up the society of men ? He said : O God, I have
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