What is Good-temperedness and How It Affects Social Relations?

The present study aims at analyzing the “husn khulq (good - temperedness)" in the Islamic tradition. Research methods used in this paper are library research method and content analysis technique. The findings of this study are concerned with whatness of good -temperedness which deal firstly with the realm of social relations, not all fields and secondly with its examples. At least eight instances were found in this study: making friends and adaptability, gentleness, being good conversationalist, humor, delight in pleasant, not unhappy in adversity, and anger management. Three elements (magnitude - convenience - ornaments) express its effect on social relations; in this way the "good temperedness" is a developed positive mood which its goodness goes beyond the scope of the self and to the others and finally brings about easy communication and beauty. The result is that we have a clear picture of good – temperedness and how to act in different fields whether it is in individual or social one or the production of science.