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Dear respected teacher,
What is the best, surest, and quickest way to overcome anger?
What can we do to be as strong and impregnable as a fortress in the face of anger?
Thank you.
The most effective way to overcome anger is through remembrance of God, for forgetting God is the main cause of anger. Anger is a force that can be a source of good when governed by reason. To strengthen our remembrance of God, we must cultivate piety through reason and continually seek refuge in God.
Anger is a powerful force and one of the distinctive gifts bestowed on human beings. When guided and controlled by reason, it becomes a source of goodness and blessing; otherwise, like a powerful nuclear force, it can destroy a person’s foundations and devastate everything around them.
The most important and effective means of warding off the impulses of the self is to remember God. The root cause of anger’s effects and its harmful consequences is forgetting God. To strengthen and sustain remembrance of Him at all times, especially in moments of crisis, and to put this divine gift into practice, we must cultivate piety—which is possible only by strengthening reason.
So let us continually entrust ourselves, our actions and our character to God, and keep raising our hands and hearts in supplication, seeking refuge at His door. Being cut off from remembrance of God and heedless of His sacred presence not only makes us prey to the flames of our own anger; it also drowns and destroys the very soul that the life-giving water could sustain.
Reciting the eighth supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya is recommended.