While Maulana Ilyas was travelling, the person sitting besides him was misbehaving in such an irritating manner that the person sitting behind them kept thinking…Now Maulana sahab would get angry, now he would snub this misbehaving young man,…now…this is just too much !!.. BUT to his surprise, throughout the journey Maulana sahab remained quiet and calm.
Finally, the observer couldn’t resist asking the reason of such patience against such disrespect, Maulana replied, " My anger is not of such low value, that I keep wasting it here and there. Out of the limited time, energy, emotions and concentration that Allah (swt) has blessed us with each day, why should we waste a part of them in useless arguments, negative thinking and wastage of emotions, when we can preserve them for good deeds…I don’t blame the child, it is not his fault that he treated me in such a manner. Actually, Allah (swt) tests everyone’s patience and HE tested mine through this man.
The young man became the difficult question of Maulana’s Exam, which Maulana solved beautifuly, unlike most people…
Out of the limited time, energy, emotions and concentration that Allah (swt) has blessed us with each day, why should we waste a part of them in useless arguments, negative thinking and wastage of emotions, when we can preserve them for good deeds...
The word "Darguzar" in urdu means "to hold very hard". One should hold "forgiveness" so hard that it might take real effort for a misbehaving person to be able to loosen the forgiver's hold from this sunnah of the Prophet (saw)...
i have a lot of patience to control my anger. when i am angry i just stay quiet though mentally it effects me but this is what i prefer...or i answer back very politely without showing any anger.
well im pretty well endowed in this regard as well. i can be angry at all the pesky idiots around me 24/7 every day of the week, and my capacity for anger does not suffer one bit.. i'm guessing maulana sahab was no angry young man...
As long as the maulana saab doesn't go postal one day, its all good. One ought to express some emotion, esp anger, and get it out of the system. It keeps building up and then you have an explosive reaction. We are all humans at the end of the day.
