Questions tagged [friendship]

I am a 28 years old male and I am a Muslim. For a long time, I was thinking about what makes someone a "friend". In Islam, is there any definition or criteria to define someone as a "friend"? If yes, what is the definition/criteria?

I am the only female in my medical class. I don't want to have anything to do with the Kafirs but academically, I need to have friends to help me along the way. They see my hijjab as a problem and I don't know what to do.

I am a male and have been trying to find friends and was told I cant have female friends since I might fall into adultery. But then how can I have male friends I could fall into bad things with them too. I don't really see anything wrong with having…

So Im a muslim girl of course and i have a bestfriend which is a boy and he is really halal which in the way he prays and recites the quran is this bad?