CONTROL YOUR ANGER: 27

ANGER SHOULD ONLY BE FOR ALLAH’S SAKE

If anger is only for Allah’s sake it never leads to personal enmities and resentments because the person who the other person is angry with, also realizes that the anger is not directed towards him as a person, rather it is directed only at specific acts or behaviours. That is why this kind of anger does not lead to personal enmities and does not upset people because they know that whatever this person is saying is solely for the sake of Allah. That is why it has been said,

 مَن اَحَبَّ لّٰلہ، وَ ابغَضَ لّٰلہ

It means that if a person has love for someone, that is for Allah’s sake, and if the person is angry with someone that is also for Allah’s sake. But what is most important is that this anger is tamed and remains within the limits of Shariah so that a person only gets angry where Shariah allows it, and only gets as much angry as Shariah allows. This can only be achieved through the benefit of company (Suhbat, صحبت) of those people who have themselves gone through Tazkiah (internal purification).