A true friend is someone who does not expect too much from you and accepts you as you are. A friend is someone who is happy when you succeed, wants the best for you, and is not critical of you when you fail.
Friendship does not require having to always be doing something for your friend, but it does require commitment; like other relationships, sustaining a friendship is work.
Between friends, words do not always have to intrude — a comfortable silence can equal more than a thousand words; just being there counts.
But friendship is also a responsibility. When someone chooses you as a friend of all the people in the world, they have chosen you as the one they can confide in, they can trust, and they can turn to for support.
If we look at what friendship entails, we will realize that the responsibility is not something to be taken lightly, for to be trusted now means that you bear the responsibility of keeping what has been confided in you safe. To betray that trust means that you will hurt your friend deeply and it also means earning the displeasure of Allah.