Aslam

Hazrat Hasan, son of Hazrat Ali, while passing by the poor, used to sit with them and they used to say to him: O descendant of the Messenger of God, take share in our food.
Then he used to get down from his conveyance and share with them their meal and said: God does not love the proud.
Another reason is that one who remains busy in rendering ..
pleasure of the people falls in error, because if he knows God perfectly, he will appreciate that there is no good in the pleasure of the people without the pleasure of God and all harms and benefits are in the hand of God. There is no benefactor and destroyer except He. He who incurs the pleasure of men by incurring the displeasure of God, God becomes displeased with him and keeps the people dissatisfied with him. If the object is only to incurs the pleasure of the people, it is not fulfilled. God is the object of love and search. Imam Shafeyi said : There is no such man as has got no friend and foe. When it is such, keep company with the pious . Hazrat Moses invoked God : O Lord, save me from the tongue of the people. He said : O Moses, I am also not free in this matter. So how can I make you free from their tongue ?
God revealed to Wazair: I will not enrol you as one of the humble ones near Me if you do not remain satisfied with the chewed matter in the mouth of the chewers.

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(7) Seventh benefit is the gaining of experience which is gained by mixing in society. One whose natural intellect is not sufficient to understand the good of this material and spiritual world, loneliness is not good for him . If a boy without experience adopts loneliness, he will be misguided. He should therefore, remain busy in educating himself . Every experience of loneliness is secret. Those who walk in the path of the next world search for purification of heart and allow themselves in the fiery tests. If they feel pride in their hearts, they try to remove it. Even some of them carry the skin of water or bundle of fuel and necessary articles from the markets. Thereby they gain experience and pride goes away. So the great benefit of mixing in society is that the faults of one come out. For this reason, it has been said that journey discloses the character and conduct of a man as it is a result of mixing in society.

So what has been described above about the benefits and harms of seclusion, it is clear that loneliness is sometimes good and sometimes bad according to the special circumstances of each man and the surroundings he lives in. This depends on his friends and companions. A certain wise man said: To keep separate from society is a cause of enmity and to mix in society means sometimes company with the bad people. So be not separate and do not also mix, rather adopt the path of loneliness in mixing in society.

RULES AND REGULATION OF SECLUDED LIVING