Friendship

“If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,”

“A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.”

“But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,”

““I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.”

“My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.”

“He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.”

“Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.”

“I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.”