What really is Inner Beauty?
Is it true that beauty comes from within?
Beauty, which attracts every person, has its two aspects: inner and outer one. Both of these aspects cannot be separated from each other as one compliments the other. In other words, real beauty completes itself when it originates from within. The inner beauty truly captivates the heart. If it is there no one can take away or steal the inner glow of a person. Moreover, it does not wither away with time, instead, it brightens more and more with time.
Outer beauty_ A Reflection of Inner beauty
A pretty face can look really ugly when one’s inside is ugly. In fact, this inner ugliness affects so badly that in spite of perfection in features, looks, dress, make-up, etc. Outer beauty comes a bonus when your inner self is beautiful enough to be kind, compassionate, honest, modest, generous, and helpful. If not illuminated from within, the outer beauty produces a very little or transient effect. That’s why we see transient love will always focus on this transient beauty and everlasting love will focus on the beauty of the heart and will find its rewards.
14 Attributes of a beautiful inner self
Khalil Jibran says, “Beauty is not in the face, beauty is a light in the heart.”In fact, this light of heart that illuminates our face consists of the following attributes.
- Kindness_ Inner beauty is in fact going out of the way to make life beautiful for others. Kindness truly reveals inner beauty and to be kind one has to act kind obviously.
2. Compassion is the core attribute in this respect. Anger, unnecessary anxiousness, exert negative reactions on every little trigger, stupidity, cheap behavior, are all the things that contribute to the ugliness of a person. Compassion is to avoid all these negative emotions or at least manage them. So the resulting calmness is an attractive quality that enhances your inner beauty.
3. Generosity is giving away what you have got from God and it makes you beautiful beyond limits. Everyone loves a generous person.
4. Honesty, a rare thing, but very beautiful when you experience it in others as well as in yourself. It makes your inside peaceful and that peace contributes to your inner beauty.
5. Confidence, level-headedness, independence are also parts and parcels of inner beauty that shine outside. If you have all the good qualities but not confident enough then those qualities will waste to some extent.
6. Maturity and knowledge also go hand in hand to beautify a person. Immature behavior leaves an ugly impression.
7. Loyalty sometimes surpasses all qualities when it contributes to the attraction of a person. An unloyal person looks unsightly and feels ugly no matter how outwardly pretty he or she is.
8. Gratitude gives you a satisfied feeling and the resulting bliss will twinkle your eyes.
9. Humility and gentleness create rays of beauty that do not match anything else. To be humble is beauty in itself.
10. Modesty and modest behavior play a very important role in reflecting true beauty. It does not hide beauty, on the contrary modesty gives decency to personality.
11. Character_ It makes a person even unbearable if he or she does not possess the strength and depth of character, no matter how beautiful he looks.
12. Awareness, learning new things, and pursuing intellectual and creative pursuits result in a decent mature personality.
13. Cleanliness_To be a beautiful person, insides and outsides should not be in conflict. If we do not care about our cleanliness, health, and physical being saying that” well I m pretty from inside” then it will not work that way. To look your best physically is not a bad thing if it is achieved in a positive and healthy manner.
14. Emotional Intelligence and mental stability _without these qualities you cannot be a beautiful being. Strong belief in God Almighty saves us from depression. To get rid of the stress you can indulge in healthy hobbies that make you feel relaxed and restored both physically and mentally.
The most important and positive about inner beauty
It is the fact that it can be brought about and developed. You can nurture and enhance it with constant effort. When you pursue it perpetually by bringing about the above-mentioned traits in yourself, your heart and soul will become pure. Pure soul and pure heart make your inside so beautiful that gives an everlasting glow to your outside. We can all find out our inner treasure and can increase it.
The sad reality of this imperfect world
We live in an imperfect world that follows the norms of society. Outward appearance is all that on which a culture or society agrees upon and its standards vary from place to place and from era to era. Very few people dig in deep and pay attention to see the real beauty in the true self of a person. To see it an immense heart is needed because often we find great people in a wrap not so attractive. At the same time, inner beauty proves itself no matter what. It is what you can rely on when making choices. Truth is that people want to be deceived by appearance deliberately,__ let them be. The true self, whether beautiful or ugly lives under the lining of skin as the saying goes, ’beauty is only skin deep’.
Allah_God, the creator of our body and soul_ How He asses us?
Allah does not see our appearance and status, __as He Himself has created it! What He cares for are our deeds and the extent to which our heart is pure. The polished attributes of inner beauty resulting in good deeds will be judged by God and will determine our future in Heaven. It depends on how much we care about being a favorite in the eyes of God!!!