How to form friendships

Firstly:

Forming
friendships, in the light of what you have mentioned of your love for people
and your kindness and politeness towards them, should be easy, in sha Allah.

That is because
the basic foundation for success in social relationships is love for people,
and being kind and polite towards them.

After that, all
you have to do is take some effective practical steps to establish and build
friendships and strengthen bonds, such as trying to take part in some
collective activities, the most important of which is praying in
congregation in the mosque in your university, if possible, or joining some
women’s activities in your college.

You can also try
to join various student clubs – that are for females only – which will give
you the opportunity to get to know people and make friends with other female
students in your class.

You can also
establish contact with other female students with whom you share common
interests, such as sharing a love of reading, exchanging useful books with
one another and encouraging one another to do good deeds, such as reading
Qur’an, praying regularly, attending study circles, helping the needy among
your fellow students and neighbours, and other activities that are of
benefit in both religious and worldly terms.

Another
beneficial means of establishing friendships is helping students who have
difficulties in understanding some subjects and topics, by providing them
with notes and trying to explain the material to them and make it easy for
them.

Secondly:

With regard to
your infatuation with that young man, what appears to be the case is that
this is the result of some hidden emotions that have manifested themselves
in a wrong way, because of your ongoing anxiety at not being able to form
friendships, and your feeling that the students are ignoring you.

Whatever the
case, what you must do in this situation, according to Islamic teachings, is
to release this energy and these emotions in a manner that is pleasing to
Allah and that will benefit you in this world and in the hereafter, such as
expressing it in the form of love for Allah, may He be exalted, and striving
to obey Him, and love for the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of
Allah be upon him) and following his Sunnah, forming friendships and sound
relationships with others, doing charitable or humanitarian deeds, honouring
your parents, upholding ties of kinship, and showing kindness to neighbours.

There is nothing
wrong with devoting some of your energy to keeping pets or growing plants,
or other appropriate, permissible deeds, in order to provide an outlet for
hidden emotions.

You must also
close every door that could enable you to follow this young man and become
more attached to him, because of what could result from that of sin, first
of all, and also psychological and spiritual exhaustion.

Moreover, this
young man does not know you or love you or care about you, and following him
will lead to nothing except a vicious circle of emotional and psychological
pain, in addition to what you will accumulate of sin as a result of loving
one whom Allah has commanded you to hate, let alone the corruption that this
may cause to your heart, soul and spirit as a result of getting used to
following this evil person and listening to his foul language and shameless
words and deeds.

May Allah help
us and you to do that which He loves and which pleases Him, may He be
glorified.