Imam Al-Sadiq

some important methods to show gratefulness for Allah's boons. They explained this verse."
And as for the favor of your Lord, do announce (it)."
Good Friendship:
Good friendship is not the matter which comes to you automatically Rather, it comes through
habituating the self and controlling its pleasures. That is because good friendship sometimes
forces you to sacrifice your desires and appetites for your friend and to prefer him to yourself.
For this reason, Abu Abd Allah, peace be on him, said: "Adjust yourself to good friendship to
him whom you make friends with."
As there are many methods to make good friendship, and as the person does not know which
one is the best, al- Sadiq, peace be on him, teaches us how to make good friendship with our
friends. He said: "Make your manners good, prevent your tongue (from saying obscene
words), suppress your anger, decrease your nonsense, plant your forgiveness, and be
generous."(404)
Moreover, he wants us to make good friendship as permanent slogan with our friends. He
said: "Shi'a (followers) of the family of Mohammed, whoever does not control himself during
his anger and does not treat his friend kindly is not one of us."(405) There are many traditions
like this.
When we make friends with someone and when we part from him for a incumbent on us to
look certain time, al- Sadiq, peace be on him, makes it for him to know his conditions. So, he
said to al- Mufaddal b. 'Amr when he came back from his travel: "Who accompanied you?"
"A man of my brothers," said al- Mufaddal" "What has he done," asked al- Sadiq. "I have not
known his place since I arrived," said al- Mufaddal. "Do you not know that whoever
accompanies a believer for forty steps, Allah will ask him about the believer on the Day of
Judgment."(406)
Friendship during Travel:
Travel has special manners which are different from those ones during the normal life. From
the first look, you may know it is an act of generosity, the noble self, and manhood to spend
much money on the food in the manner that surpasses your friends. However, al- Sadiq, peace
be on him, prevented (Muslims from doing that) during travel, for such kind of spending costs
the friend a lot when he wants to vie in spending with his other friends or it may humiliate
him when he prevents himself from doing that. It is not an act of politeness or good friendship
to cost your friend or humiliate him. For this reason, al- Sadiq, peace be on him, said to
Shahab b. 'Abd Raba(407): "Shahab, do not do that, for if they spend and you spend (more