What did al-Ghazali say about true friendship?
Al-Ghazali listed the rights of a friend with the precision of a jurist: honesty, loyalty, privacy, intercession, overlooking, thanks, prayer. Real friendship, he wrote, is rarer than it looks.
1 passages from 1 book in the library
The classical approach.
These passages are drawn from 1 book by Ibn Battuta — part of the classical Sunni tradition that carries over a thousand years of reflection on the Qurʾān, the authentic Sunnah, and the consensus of the early community. Nothing below is a paraphrase. The words are the scholars' own, translated from the original Arabic manuscripts.
14th century · Tangier, Morocco
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"But remembering a friend among the money changers, he turned to him, explained the situation, and received a loan to repay the merchant."
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