His happiness is in his face but his grief is in his heart ...

His happiness is in his face but his grief is in his heart ; the expansive thing being the chest and the humble thing being the self; restraining from everything and exhorting upon everything good; neither being spiteful, nor envious, nor leaping (quick to argue), nor abusive, nor a fault-finder, nor slanderous.

He dislikes the elevation (status), and inimical to be heard of (fame), ‘طَوِيلُ الْغَمِّ بَعِيدُ الْهَمِّ’ lengthy of grief (but still) far from worrying, frequent of the silence, dignity, remembrance , gratefulness; being gloomy due to his thoughts and joyful due to his poverty , of the easy-going nature, soft flexibility, strong of loyalty, little hurtfulness, neither being a liar nor immoral.

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Muhammad Bin Al Hasan Bin Za’lan, from Abu Is’haq Al Khurasany, from Amro Bin Jumi’e Al Abdy, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abd Allah -asws having said: ‘Our -asws Shia are the pale, the withered, the slender, those, when the night covers them, they welcome it with grief’.

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Ismail Bin Ibrahim, from Al Hakam Bin Uteyba who said, ‘Abu Abd Allah -asws said: ‘When the sins of the servant are numerous and there does not happen to be with him from the deeds what would expiate these, He -azwj would Try him by the grief in order to expiate those (sins)’.