[MedicineForUs]

I hope your Ramadan has been blessed for you and your families. I am wondering how one should accept praise. I am VERY bad at this, if someone praises me I usually say the opposite of what they said to try to lower myself but I feel this is not the best approach. For example if someone says I am smart (I'm really not) I will say not I am not smart so and so is smart. If someone would call me pious I would try to stay tight lipped because I would want to say NO way, if you really knew me you wouldn't want to talk to me! In other cases I just say Alhamdulillah and that is it, but if they praise me on something I know which is not true I feel like a hypocrite for not correcting them.

Can anyone advise me on how to accept praise without being so foolish.