Friendship is a relationship between people based on mutual affection and shared interests and values like caring, respect and trust. There are three kinds of friendship: based on pleasure, usefulness, and virtue. A good friend in Islam has strong faith, wisdom, and good character. Friendship differs from love in that it involves trust rather than sacrifice, allows for multiple friends rather than one, and lacks a physical element. Qualities of friendship include sympathy, enjoyment of company, kindness, understanding and loyalty. To make friends, one should participate in shared interests and be cheerful, genuine and willing to give as well as take in the relationship.

1. FRIENDSHIP
Presented By:
Arij Imran
University of Gujrat

2. Main Objectives of topic to be explained:
• What is Friendship?
• Kinds of Friendship
• Friendship in Islam
• Difference b/w Love and Friendship
• Characteristics and Qualities of Friendship
• What is a friend?
• How to make Friends?
• Quotes on Friendship
• Friendship Recipe

3. Friendship:
• Friendship is a relationship of mutual
affection between people.
• Friendship is a stronger form
of interpersonal bond than an association.
• Just like love, "friendship" is something that we can NOT buy.
• Friendship may be only one small part of our life, but it can
change your whole life.
• Friendship is a relationship between people based on their
affection for one another and their sharing of common interest
and values such as caring, respect, responsibility, trust and
family.
• Friendship is the most precious gift of life.
• Friendship makes life thrilling. It makes life sweet and pleasant
experience.

4. KINDS OF FRIENDSHIP
There are three kinds of friendship:-
1. Friendship based on Pleasure.
2. Friendship based on Usefulness.
3. Friendship based on Virtue.

5. • Friendship Based on Pleasure :-
-Friends with someone because you enjoy
their company.
• Friendship Based on Usefulness :-
-Friends with someone because you expect
to gain some advantage out of the association.
• Friendship Based on Virtue :-
-Friends With someone because they are
good (virtuous). Aristotle calls this ‘perfect’
friendship.

6. Friendship in Islam
• Part of our religion is to analyze whom we choose to
be our friends. Prophet ‫ﷺ‬said,
‘The example of the righteous friend and an
unrighteous friend is that of a seller of perfume and a
blacksmith (he is always with the fire, coals, and flame).
As for the seller of perfume, either he will give you a gift,
or you will purchase from him the perfume, or, at the very
least, you will get a good smell form him. As for the
blacksmith, if you get too close, he will burn you. Even if
you don’t, you will get nothing, but bad smell from him,
the smell of soot and burning.’ (Bukhari, Muslim)

7. Cont…
• A bad friend will drag you down to his level; will burn you
through his sins, drugs, alcohol, dirty jokes, foul language,
and backbiting Even if you do not get to his level, what
benefit did you get from his company?
• Our Prophet ‫ﷺ‬told us that the Shaitan comes to a person
who is all alone, and he is further away when a person is
with a righteous person.
• Allah say in the Quran will happen to those who pay no
attention to who they befriend: A sinner will bite his hands
and say woe to me why did I not follow the Prophet and
woe to me, why did I befriend so-and-so? This friend of
mine was the one who misguided me after the truth came
to me. (25:27-28)

8. •A Good friend has three
characteristics:
•solid religion: so evil is avoided, a
friend should not drag you down
to Jahannum
•common sense and good intellect:
even if he is not a scholar, he is praying,
and fasting, and not doing major sins,
you can share in his wisdom and
benefit from his life experiences
•Akhlaq and mannerisms: good social
company that you can enjoy, have halal
fun and laughter.

9. Difference B/W Love and Friendship
Love
– Love can be termed as a sacrifice.
– A person can only have one person to
love.
– Lovers will have sleepless nights, and
dream about their lovers. The lovers
even sleep and wake up with the
thoughts of his or her lover.
– In love, some physical element is also
involved between individuals.
Friendship
– Friendship can be termed as a
trust.
– One can have many friends.
– There is no chance that one will
lie awake and think of his friends
for a whole night.
– There is no such physical
element involved in friendship.

10. Characteristics of Friendship
Certain characteristics are involved in many types of
friendship :-
 Sympathy
 Enjoyment of each other's company
 Humor
 Kindness
 Compassion Mutual understanding
 Empathy
 Trust
 Honesty
 Loyalty

11. What is a Friend?

12. FRIEND
A friend is a partner in friendship, an interpersonal relationship
between humans.
A friend is the one who is
• Solution to Your problems
• Answers to your chaos
• Light to your darkness
• Painkiller to your pain
• Storms in Droughts

13. Types of Friends
1.Same Gender
2.Boy-Girl
3.Group

14. How to make friends?
• Go where people are- most friends
you make will be people who have
the same interests you do.
• Be a friend to yourself- don’t put
yourself down.
• Be cheerful- smile, don’t always
wait for the other person to speak
first.

15. • Be yourself- no one is perfect. Your friends
won’t expect you to be, so it is best to just be
yourself.
• Don’t expect perfection in your friends like
you, your friends will make mistakes now and
then.
• Laugh with them about it, but don’t put them
down.
• Friendship is give and take- friendship is
sharing things like feelings, plans, and
dreams.
• To make and keep a friend, you have to give
as well as take. Learn to compromise.
Cont..

16. Friendship Quotes

21. Recipe Of Friendship
The Recipe of friendship :
• 1 cup of sharing
• 1 cup of sharing
• 2 cups of caring
• 2 cups of caring
• 1 cup of forgiveness and hugs
of tenderness
 Mix all these together……
....to make friends forever.

22. • Two are better than one , Because they
have a good reward for their labor.
• For if they fall, one will lift up his
companion. But woe to him who is
alone when he falls, For he has no one
to help him up.
• Though one may be overpowered by
another , two can withstand him. And a
threefold cord is not quickly broken.
The Value of Having a True Friend

23. Questions???