And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship."Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
... The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
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O to be such a friend. Ya Allah, please grant us friends like this and help us to be such a friend in return. Amin Ya Rabb
maybe not quite so poetic, but in the words of Carole King:
"You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there
You've got a friend"
I see Sayyidina Abu Bakr and Umar too in this poem...
it made me think on my own best friend... who happens to be my very own kid sister... and oh how much i miss her. she is my happiness, my sadness, my anger, my headache and my laughter... she ticks me off and she tickles me. all these years, neither of us could tolerate each other and yet, when we are on the edge, we know we have each other as our nets.
Salam,
Closeness, affinity, love etc, does not necessarily connote smooth rides from beginning to the end.
In fact, the rides with the most severe bumps in our lives are the ones that we remember most, we cherish most, we speak about most and we treasure the most.
This is simply because no matter how excruciating those rides may be, when we turn to our side we still see the face of our faithful companion smiling with us: after being with us through it all, even in deep silence.
That makes for a profound relationship. That piles up to constitute what we fashionably know of as commitment, closeness, affinity and eventually love for another. There is no short cuts.
Such relationship endures as it has tasted sufficient of life's sweets and sours alike - together.
Anything less, is unlikely to humanly survive. SubhanAllah!
little miss pinky: you have indeed been on a beautiful journey.
Wallahu'a'alam
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