ARE YOU ANGRY?

 *ARE YOU ANGRY?*

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, 

"Do not be angry." [Muwatta 1646]

It should be noted that in the sharh of Muwatta by az-Zurqani there is a distinction made between two kinds of anger: 

1) Getting angry about wordly matters. One should not get angry about those things which cause them anger. This is what the hadith is referring to and is hated.

2) Responding angrily regarding religious matters. Such as the people of falsehood (e.g. when they invent new lies against the Prophet ﷺ). This recommended and may be even obligatory.

Meaning getting angry about things regarding the deen is not always seen as a bad behaviour unlike many people who claim it is.

Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that 

He (may Allah bestow peace and blessings upon him) said, 

“A gold coin spent in the path of Allah, 

a gold coin spent freeing a slave, a gold coin given in charity to the poor, 

a gold coin spent upon your family; 

the greatest reward is that which is spent for one’s family.” 

-[Hadith 39 in Raf al-Junah wa Khafd al-Janah bi-Arba’in hadithan fi bab al-Nikah (Forty Hadiths on Marriage) by Imām Mullā 'Alī al-Qārī (رحمه الله)]

❝An assembly of knowledge in which you partake, is better than the world and all that is in it, and there is nothing that weighs equal to the benefits you gain from it.❞

ابن سعدي، الفواكة الشهية (179)

“Verily, among what you mention of the majesty of Allah, His glorification, declaration of His oneness, and His praise circle around the Throne, buzzing like bees in reminder of who said them. Would you not like to be remembered this way ?”

Sunan Ibn Mājah 3809