6- Association with unrighteous individuals too is one of...
6- Association with unrighteous individuals too is one of the causes of suspicion, because the criterion for general judgements of man is often a defective induction which he makes about the individuals dealing with them, as judgements of persons about the people of a city or a village or a country is based on the special individuals having contact with them. If the associates of a man are unrighteous, he will naturally become pessimistic to all people.
It is mentioned in Islamic traditions: «مُجالَسَةُ الاَْشْرارِ تُورِثُ سُوءَ الظَّنِّ بِالاَْخْیارِ». Association with evildoers causes suspicion in the righteous. [^2] 7- Sometimes suspicion has a real source that is when corruption dominates on the people of a certain time or place, so that a man becomes suspicious to every thing based on this intellectual principle that…
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