Ruling on saying: ‘Seeing you restores my soul’
Question

                What is the ruling on saying that something ‘restores my soul,’ as it is said when drinking water or when seeing a friend whom one has not seen for a long time, and one says to him: ‘Seeing you restores my soul’. What is the ruling on that?.
Praise be to Allah.
    These phrases that are commonly spoken by people are not 
    meant literally, that the soul left the body and then came back to it, or 
    that seeing a certain person restores the soul to one who is dead. Rather 
    what is meant is feeling ease and happiness after pain and hardship, so that 
    after that that person is like one who has been brought back to life. The 
    soul does not leave the body except in the case of death, although there 
    remains a kind of connection to it, and the soul leaves the body partially 
    in the case of sleep. 

    Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: The soul 
    has five kinds of connection to the body: 

    1.Its connection to it in the 
    mother's womb as a foetus.

    2.Its connection to it after 
    emerging into this world.

    3.Its connection to it when 
    asleep; it is connected to it in one sense and separate from it in another.

    4.Its connection to it in 
    al-Barzakh when although it has departed from it, it is not completely 
    separate from it in the sense that it has no connection to it at all. We 
    have quoted some hadeeths and reports which indicate that the soul returns 
    to the body when greetings are conveyed to it, and this return is something 
    special which does not imply that the body is brought back to life before 
    the Day of Resurrection.

    5.Its connection to it on the Day 
    the bodies are resurrected, and this is the most complete type of its 
    connection to the body, because it is a type of connection in which the body 
    with never die, sleep or decay.

    The soul of the sleeper is in his body and he is alive, 
    although it is different from his life when he is awake; sleep is akin to 
    death. Similarly, when the soul of the dead person is returned to his body, 
    he is in a state between life and death, like the sleeper who is in a state 
    between life and death. Thinking about this will clear up a great deal of 
    confusion for you. End quote from Kitaab al-Rooh, p. 44 

    To sum up: there is nothing wrong with a person saying ‘my 
    soul is restored to me’ and so on, if it is expressing an acceptable meaning 
    such as relief, joy and happiness after hardship, pain and difficulty. 

    And Allaah knows best.