Vice & Virtue

Nawwas b. Sim'an al-Ansiri reported: I asked Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) about virtue and vice.

He said: Virtue is a kind disposition and vice is what rankles in your heart and that you disapprove that people should come to know of it.

Shahih Muslim, Kitab al-Birr Was-salat-I-wa'l -Adab, Book 32, Number 6195.