“Do not look down on any act of
kindness, even if it is just meeting your brother with a pleasant smile on your
face.”
[Sahih Muslim]
“A pleasant smile causes people
to become happy, wins over their love and affection, and leads to both parties
having good thoughts of each other. Just try it and you will see.
However, were you to frown upon
the people, they would stay away from you and not feel comfortable sitting with
you nor talking to you.
You may even become afflicted
with a dangerous condition: high blood pressure. Having a tranquil chest and a
pleasant smile is the most wholesome remedy and the best preventative measure
for this condition. For this reason, physicians advice people who have this
condition to stay away from what disturbs and angers them, since those things
only agitate this condition.
A pleasant smile actually has a
remedial effect on this condition, since it leads to a tranquil chest, and it
causes others to love you.”
[Taken from: “Upright Moral Character”, by Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, p.
49]
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