Lesson twenty :The worst friends

Imam Ali( A. S. )says:

شَرُّ إخْوانِكَ مَنْ داهَنَكَ فى نَفْسِكَ وَ ساتَرَكَ عَيْبَك‌

Translation

Your worst friends are those who flatter and talk with you glibly and conceal your faults..

Brief description

Escaping the realities and concealing the truths neither solves any problem, nor is considered as a service to anybody. Therefore, those friends who try to conceal the truths instead of corrective and proper criticism, and conceal their friend's faults for his false satisfaction, or show it as a goodness, not only have failed to be faithful in friendship, but also have committed a great treachery. This treachery would be sometimes at the cost of prestige, reputation, honor and prosperity of their friend.