Strength is in Overcoming Anger

As-Salāmu ‘Alaykum wa RaḥmatuLlāhi wa Barakātuh. A‘ūdhu BiLlāhi Minash-shayṭāni r-rajīm. BismiLlāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. Wa ṣ-Salātu wa s-Salāmu ‘alá Rasūlinā Muḥammadin Sayyidi l-Awwalīna wa l-Akhirīn. Madad yā RasūlAllāh, Madad yā Sādāti Aṣḥābi RasūliLlāh, Madad yā Mashāyikhinā, Dastūr Mawlana Shaykh Abdullāh al-Fā’iz ad-Dāghistāni, Shaykh Muḥammad Nāẓim al- Ḥaqqānī. Madad. Ṭarīqatunā aṣ-Suḥbah wa l-Khayru fi l-Jam‘iyyah.

Our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam says, “Who is the strong one? Is it the person who beats people and defeats this one and that one?” “It is not”, says our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. The strong person is the one who overcomes his anger. To defeat it is more difficult than defeating another person. Therefore, when people follow their egos, that doesn’t come to their minds. They think, “Whoever comes, I will defeat him. Whoever makes me angry, I will beat him up”. They are controlled by their egos and captured by their egos.

Who controls his anger is the one who is strong. Who cannot control his anger, a person who shows his anger to people or to those who make him angry by beating them has a weak willpower. When the willpower is weak, a person cannot be considered strong. A further level is when someone forgives the person he got angry with; that is more acceptable in the presence of Allah ﷻ.

Everything people of the present time teach is to be angry, to be resentful and to demand your rights. That is the game of shaytan. The more they do so, the more loss they get. More loss comes to everything around them. “Who starts up with anger sits down with loss”, a proverb of ours says. Therefore, we should control it.

Our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam says:,

“Knowledge is only by learning, and forbearance is only by exerting oneself to be forbearing”. Knowledge is attained by learning. And it is said, “The forbearing one is [always] in a good state.” A person who captures and controls his anger is forbearing. A person who controls his anger is an acceptable person in the presence of Allah ﷻ. May Allah ﷻ protect us.

It is difficult. As we said, as our Holy Prophet ﷺ says, it is a difficult matter. And whoever controls it becomes strong. Those who cannot control it, even if they say that they are strong, they are not strong. They are captured by their egos and captured by their anger. May Allah ﷻ protect us. May Allah ﷻ help us insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 29 May 2022/ 28 Shawwal 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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