Sadullah Khan – Developing a Qur’anic Personality To be and what not to be. #10

Developing the Quranic personality

to be and what not to be.

We know that human beings

are social beings.

And as social beings, communication

is absolutely essential

for human interaction.

And as human beings, we communicate in a

variety of ways. Among the ways we communicate

is verbal like what I'm doing right now.

It can be written, it can be sensory

by touch.

Just by the hand and you understand what

it means.

Or facial gestures like a frown.

The ultimate communication

through non verbal facial expression

is the smile.

It is universal

and is rarely, if ever, misunderstood.

Primitive tribes

and modern world leaders

equally know the use of it. And scientists

are convinced

that a particular gesture like the smile

actually releases

some chemical

called endorphins

into the human system when you do it.

And this creates a feeling of mild euphoria

or

seeming happiness, it seems.

A facial expression that is multilingual

and is international.

Transcending language barriers,

transcending cultural barriers.

Wise ones have said

that successful people have 2 things on their

lips

and on their face

smile and silence.

Smile can solve problems

and silence

can avoid

them. The grace call of hadith ibn Battal,

he wrote a commentary on

Sahih Muslim.

He

said,

He said, to meet people with a smile

and a

cheerful face

is among the behavioral practices of all prophets,

peace be upon them.

In fact, in Sahih al Bukhali it's documented

that jari'b ibn Abdullah radiAllahu anhu companion said,

'Abdu'l Jariel Abdulla says, 'Since I embrace Islam,

the messenger of Allah never refused me when

I asked him for an audience. He never

refused me. And whenever I met him, I

never saw him except that he was smiling.

A smile costs nothing

but gives much.

It enriches those who receive it without making

poorer the one who gives it.

It takes but a moment,

but the memory can last for a long

time.

In Islam therefore,

smiling is considered not only a good deed

besides being a sunnah of the prophet, a

constant and consistent sunnah of the rasool, but

also a form of philanthropy or charity. That's

why Rasoolullah alaihi wasallam said,

To smile at your fellow human being

is a sign or rather is a form

of charity.

Now, it's is unfortunate

that in some circles, the more religious people

are,

they consider themselves The more religious they consider

themselves,

the less likely they are to smile.

And I found this

as a practice. It's very common. The people

who are seemingly more religious are less likely

to smile or even laugh.

And some of our people wear

the righteousness

of themselves

with such suffering

self awareness,

it robs them sometime

of the ability to positively relate to others.

The companion Abu Dhul Qafari radiAllahu an, he

said the Prophet

said, don't consider

any small thing you do, any good thing

you do, even if it's small, don't consider

it insignificant.

Even if it is that you meet your

brother with a cheerful face and a pleasant

smile.

Smile. You see a smile can be invaluable

as a message of goodwill,

and immeasurable

in promoting

positive relations.

And they say that all the statistics in

the world cannot measure the warmth of a

smile.

That's who said, you cannot satisfy people with

the money that you have or the wealth

that you possess, but you can appease them

with your cheerful face and positive character.

Little wonder the companion of Rasulullah Abu Lah

bin Hari radiAllahu an said,

I've never seen

smile as much as I saw the prophet,

salallahu alayhi wasalam smile.

So let us have a cheerful countenance,

a cheerful face when meeting people.

And let us imbibe the sunnah of the

smile.