“If you want to identify someone’s character, examine the friends he sits with.”
(Ali ibn Abi Talib)
A convenient way of identifying people’s characters is to study their environment. This will allow the observer to be cautious when realizing that the circle of people they are sitting with may not be aiding their development on their path to pure love. On the other hand, we may feel comfortable sitting among other spiritual people.
This advice, however, is not to be taken in its literal form. It is merely a suggestion to garner a little more information about the people we choose to associate with, particularly those we may not know too well.
