The second
thing Imam
Ghazzali v
says is that
we all need
to work on
is quwwatul
g h a d a b
(power of
anger). Every
person has a
power of strength in himself. This strength
if it is in the balance of sharia is called
bravery. That person is a brave man whose
quwwat of ghadab is proportional. But if it
goes beyond the sharia, the balance is not
there. When the balance is disturbed then
what happens? Then he becomes reckless,
and arrogant and an oppressor. He is not
brave anymore, he is an oppressor now.
Firawn was an oppressor, Sulaiman
was brave. What a difference!
Allah says,
Then if this balance goes to the other side,
and you say I will elimina te anger from
my body. I will take it out from my body.
I will throw out all my anger. Then you
become a coward and that is not a good
character either. So the balance needs to be
maintained.
We also know about Hazrat
Ali , that in the battlefield
when he was fighting in jihad
and he was about to kill a kafir
(disbeliever) with the sword in his
hand. The kafir said I am going to die
in any case so let me just disrespect him
as well. So he spit in the face of Hazrat
Ali . Hazrat Ali immediately let him
go. The kafir asked “Why aren’t you killing
me anymore?” Hazrat Ali said, “Before
I was killing you for Allah , and now
my personal anger is there so I am not
going to kill you.” This is how careful
the Sahaba (companions of Prophet )
were. We love for the sake of Allah ,
we hate for the sake of Allah. It does
not mean that a believer cannot hate. Of
course, he hates alcohol, he hates partying,
he hates fornication, he hates gambling, he
hates interest. He hates these things. That
That is why Allah did not say, do not
become angry.
NISBAH 42
َ ْ َ ْ َن
َْ َ
والكظ ِم ي� الغيظ
ِ
“And who restrain anger” (3:134)
They control their anger. When in anger,
you don’t lose it. Of course if we don’t have
anger, how will we go for jihad (to struggle
in the path of islam).How will we defend
the oppressed? If we don’t feel angry at
anything and the sharia is being broken
and Quran is being burnt and all of these
things are happening and we don’t feel
anything. Even the Prophet was
not free of that trait, he used
to feel angry. It comes in a
hadith that when he would
feel angry at something, his
vein would start to flicker
and his cheeks would turn
red.