Perpetual Friendship

Everybody likes to make friends and wishes to spend a long time with them. It is not every friendship that lasts for a long time, but only a very few. What actually makes your friendship lasting is the purpose it serves. Moreover, these purposes could differ from person to person, however some people do not even give a thought to it in any way. By now, someone might be thinking about the purpose that could lead to perpetual friendship - perhaps, someone could say, the friendship that lasts only till the last breath of your life is the perpetual friendship, but surely for me this definition doesn't do justice to the term "perpetual friendship", rather it only portrays the ephemeralness of the friendship. Before we go further, I need to share a poetic verse of Dr. Muhammad Iqbal (translation):

"Do not measure life by counting passing days and nights,

Ever young, ever alive, eternal is the font of life."  (Iqbal)

"you have a perpetual bond of friendship with someone only when your friendship does not serve an ephemeral purpose."

Hopefully, by now everyone of you understands what i mean by the term "perpetual friendship". Yes, the friendship that lasts even after your death and a friend who could help you after your death. Here, the true concept of spiritual friendship starts. Everybody does favors for his or her friend till the purpose of his or hers friendship has been achieved. 

"Your friendship serving the perpetual purpose doesn't allow you to count the favors you do for your friend; Rather, it encourages you to give and love him more, and overlook his errors and pray for him."

Now, what the favors could your friend do for you after your death? Who could be that perpetual friend of yours? How could a friend be a true blessing for you? Here, i would just quote an Ayah of the Quran to answer these questions and conclude my this short essay:

"Close friends, that Day, will be enemies to each other, except for the righteous" (Al-Quran:43:67)"