Chapter V: Duties Towards Companions and Friends
adopted loneliness for Thee. He said : O David, beware seek friends for you and do not take those friends who do not help you for My pleasure, they are your enemies. They will make your heart hard and keep you farthest from Me. David once said to God : O Lord, how is it possible that all the people will love me and obey the message of religion ? It was said : Treat with the people according to their nature and make good what is between you and Me. In another narration . Treat with the people of the world with the nature of the world and treat with the inmates of the next world with the nature of the next world. The Prophet said : Those people those people among you are dearest to God who love and are loved, and those people among you are dearest to God who love and are loved, and those people among you are objects of greatest hatred of God who roam with slanders and
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The Prophet said : There is an angel of God whose half — body was created of fire and half of ice. He says : O God, as Thou hast created tie between fire and ice, crete love in the hearts of Thy pious servants. He said : If a man makes friendship for God, He creates for him a rank in Paradise. The Prophet said : The mutual lovers of God will live on the long pillars of red emeralds.
There will be seventy thousand rooms on that pillar. From them , they will peep at the inmates of Paradise. The brilliance of their look will illuminate the inmates of Paradise. The brilliance of their look will illuminate the inmates of Paradise as the rays of the sun illuminates this world. The inmates of Paradise will say to one another . Take us to see those who loved one another for God. On their foreheads, it will be written — Lovers of God.
WISE SAYINGS
Hazrat Ali said You should take to friends . They will be counted in this world and in the next. Have you not heard about the inmates of Hell — 1-1. We have got no intercessors or bosom friends? Hazrat AbduIlah-b-Omar said : By God, if I fast all days and pray all nights, spend all my wealth in the way of God without account and if I die on the day with no love for those who obey God and with no hatred for those who do not obey God, it will be no use to me. Hazrat Hasan Basari said : O children of Adam, let not the following word deceive you — He who loves one will be with him, because you cannot earn the rank of the pious people without doing their actions. The Jews and the
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