मुस्कुराना ना भूल जाया करो
                                [Smiling is the charm of beauty; do not thus forget to smile]

            यूँ मुस्कुराए वो कि, कलियों में जान सी पड़ गई ।
                           यूँ लबकुशां हुए कि, गुलिस्ताँ बना दिया ॥


                           मुस्कुराना है हुस्न की दौलत; मुस्कुराना ना भूल जाया करो
               [Smile is the wealth / Charm of the beauty; hence don’t forget to smile]

How can one enhance the charm of his/her smile or laugh, is the object of this article. Let us see how?

Have you ever heard of an ‘Easy Smile’? People with easy smiles break into a grin effortlessly, thereby making everybody around them more friendly to them and happy with them. Generally every photographer likes to capture candid pictures. So they ask you before taking photographs, ‘Smile Please’. But smiles are fading away in our day to day life. The stress levels are going up, timelines are getting shorter and our patience levels have almost reached to zero. The surmounting challenges in the life have killed the emotion of pleasure so how can it get manifested in the shape of a charming smile. It surely appears as if smiling is an allegation on the busy persons of the day.
In the words of Hamid Sahrai,

                 [My whole life is full of pains; hence smiling is a blemish or allegation on me.]

(A) Practice smiling a lot: - When you practice a lot, smiling becomes easier and you look less strained when you do it. Practice what you feel to be your most attractive smile. Soon your confidence in your smiling will increase and you will start smiling without first conceiving it i.e. spontaneously. Look at your photos smiling in different ways. When do you look better, smiling with your mouth closed or smiling with your mouth open? From which angle this smile of you, have lit up your face the most? Which smile displays your other features to the best of their charm adding to the beauty of your face? Which smile comes across the most natural on your face? Practice before a mirror to emote that very smile which you have liked the best. Practice to give it again and again until you start getting it effortlessly and just in the right way. Getting to the inner feeling which gives rise to that just smile will help you to replicate it without looking into the mirror. Practice smiling at random strangers. Just make an eye contact with any one and give that smile. Not everyone will smile back and some may even look at your scornfully, but ignore it. But when someone will respond to it with his/her own charming smile. You will feel immensely happy.



















हमने सीने से लगाया, दिल न अपना बन सका । 
मुस्कुरा कर तुमने देखा, दिल तुम्हारा हो गया ॥ 

‘Asi Ramnagari, another Urdu Poet has put this slightly differently as under:

जिसने देखा मुस्कुराकर, दिल उसी का हो गया ॥
(I have nourished the heart in my chest for long but I am nothing. The heart goes to whoever sees towards it with a charming smile.)


वह ज़िन्दगी किसी भी, जहन्नुम से कम नहीं ॥ 
(The life which doesn’t have smiles at all is just like a hell)

ग़म से उकता के मुस्कुरा लेना ॥ 
 
                The philosophy in which persons ever suppress a benign smile has also remained in Urdu poetry but it was only for those who lost the game of love. As ‘Adeeb‘, a famous Urdu poet has narrated in the following couplet.

कितने आँसू पिला के मारा है ॥ 

                One cannot understand what is good in this philosophy. But in the game of love, its being used as a weapon in general to impress the loved one, as depicted in the following couplet:

सामने वो मुस्कुरा के आ गए ॥ 
(See the charisma of my tears; she came smiling before me to console.)


मुर्दादिल क्या ख़ाक जिया करतें हैं ॥
(Life is the name of living with joy; those who do not lead their life with joy are actually not worth living.)
I propose to end that:
हर किसी से मिलो ख़ुलूस के साथ, चार दिन की ज़िंदगानी है । 
हिर्स, गुस्सा, हसद, हविस, नफरत, सब फ़ना होने की निशानी है ॥   
(One should meet with everybody with the warmth of a charming smile as life is very short. Greed, Anger, Jealousy, Desire and Hatred, all these are negativities which will kill you.)

        tgk¡ pkj ;kj fey tk,¡ ogha ckr gks fny nkj !











          lQ+ myVrh gS tks efLtn esa tukc vkrs gSaAA


           mQ rsjh dkfQ+j tokuh tks’k ij vkbZ gqbZAA                                         
                                                                                                  
           gqLu [kqn csrkc gS] tyos fn[kkus ds fy,AA

                                                                           ¼et+kt½

            cT+e esa xks;k esjh tkfuc b’kkjk dj fn;kAA



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            feykdj vk¡[k dgrs gSa] b/kj ns[ks rks va/kk gksAA


            frjNh utjksa ls u ns[kks vkf’kds+&fnyxhj dksA
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            ij vkneh;r u nh t+jh&lhAA


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            fxyk rc gks vxj rwus fdlh ls Hkh fuckgh gksAA


            jgs rqe jkr Hkj cspSu fdl dEc[+r ds ?kj esaAA
                                                     


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            g¡lh Fkh mudh fdlh ij dksbZ vrkc u FkkAA   



            [kSj thrk u eq>dks ikb;sxkAA



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            g¡l ds xSjksa dh rjQ dgus yxk&^vkSj lquk*AA

                                                                    ¼gljr y[kuoh½

            fny esa fQj rsjs flok vkSj Hkh vjek¡ gksxkAA


            dgdgs mM+ jgs gSa ekre esaAA
                                     


            vk¡[kksa esa 'keZ Fkh u ut+j esa fgt+kc FkkAA

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            eqn~nr esa rqe feys Hkh rks xS+jksa ds ?kj feysAA


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            ;g tYlk oksg bd /kwek&/kkeh djsaxsA


            jksts&tt+k d+Ry fQj viuk fd;kAA


            tks ugha tkurs oQ+k D;k gS \\
 ;s rks flQZ gfol dks tkurs gSaA budks oQ+k ls D;k erycA

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            Ikgys cqrksa ds b’d+ esa bZeku ij cuhA
            fQj ,slh vk cuh fd esjh tku ij cuhAA


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            fdlh ij [kqnk dk vkSj brkc D;k gksxk \\


            cMs+ ukle> gks ;s D;k pkgrs gks !!