Poem by Imam Shafi'i

It is good to know Alhumdulilah that cool people feel the same way I do :) Thank you Asma, my love.

If an acquaintance only burdens you with formality
Then leave them, and trouble yourself not with worry
For amongst men are replacements, and in leaving is relief -
And the heart will stay patient for a truly beloved eternally.

Yet not everyone for whom your heart yearns shares the feeling,
Nor every ‘good do’er’ sincere in what they’re revealing -
If kindness comes not naturally then what joy
Can there be in friendship that is only perfunctory.

No good is a friend who betrays a beloved,
Meeting them after closeness with coldness;
Who rejects time spent together in happiness,
And reveals secrets only yesterday veiled.

Farewell to this life if one cannot find
A true friend – honest, noble, and kind.