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A man sought
advice from the prophet Mohammed (PBUH). The prophet (PBUH)
said to him “Don’t be angry”, the man repeatedly sought
for more advice and the prophet (PBUH) repeated, “Don’t
be angry” [Refer to Bukhari]. Now, it is scientifically
and medically proved that anger as a form of human
reaction affects human heart. It increases the rate of
heart beating to an abnormal or unnatural state and
consequently increases the blood pushed in the blood
vessels and increases the probability of blood pressure
and heart attack. It is well known that physical efforts
such as running or working a physically hard work
increases the heart beating. But in such cases the heart
beating is accompanied by physical exertion and toil
therefore there is a balance between the heart exertion
and physical to it. It improves the healthy of both the
heart and the body. But in the case of anger it is only
the heart which experience tense in addition to the
harmonic and inner changes which affect the angry, more
blood gets pumped into the body whose blood vessels are
not ready and wide to receive the pushed blood and
consequently, creates blood pressure and heart attack. A
running man may stops running and achieve a normal rate
of heart beating, but and angry man may not be able to
get rid of the anger and its cause quickly and
consequently increases an imbalance heart tense and this
results into health problems. This is in addition to the
social tension, crimes and family unrest. Scientists, in
the past, used to think that the anger expressed frankly
and openly is not harmful to health. They lead to the
same consequences. They may differ in their tense. In the
case of suppressed anger, a repeated suppressed anger may
increase blood pressure and sometimes causes cancer. But
in the case of frankly expressed anger and when it is
repeated, it may lead to damages in arteries of heart and
increases the possibility of heart attack. Because the
explosion of anger may increase its wares and it becomes
difficult to control over the reaction of the angry
because the physical state of the person is inseparable
from his psychological condition, consequently, the
effect of anger reaches to the human glands which
secretions. These secretions may forbid the reasoning and
immunizing system to act. They may hinder the work of
anti-bodies. The body fails to use its defensive weapons
which are released by important glands. The body becomes
weak as a result of repeated anger. This may interpret
the reason behind the turning of normal cells into
cancerous cells due to the absence of the normal
functioning of the defense system of the body. Therefore,
it is clear that the saying of the prophet Mohammed (PBUH)
contains a valuable wisdom which, it followed, protects
human body of scientific medical miracles in the saying
of the prophet Mohammed (PBUH) who advised Muslims not to
angry. Source: “Scientific Miracles in Islam and Sunna
Nabaweya” By: Mohammed Kamil Abdel Samad. Anger & its
disastrous consequences …… Dr. Ahmed Shawgi Ibrahim, the
remember of the Royal Medical Association in London & the
internal & heart diseases consultant says … the human
tendencies can be divided into four types of human
tendencies. The following are the main human tendencies:
the lustful tendencies which lead to anger and agitation.
The domination tendencies which leads to arrogance and
tendency to colonies. The satanic tendencies which lead
to hate and desist others. Whatever, may be the type of
anger, it instigates the body, affects the heart and
causes physical and psychological diseases, such as
diabetes, heart attack. The modern medical research
confirmed that anger and particularly when it repeatedly
overwhelms man, it decreases his age. Therefore, the
prophet Mohammed (PBUH) advises Muslim not to be angry.
This does not means that a Muslim should not be angry at
all, no, but it means he should not be excessively angry.
A Muslim should be angry when if there aggression against
his religion, his holy sister, his fellow-Muslim
brothers. A Muslim should be angry if there is a
violation of the teaching of Islam but he should repeat
the aggression with an equal aggression. He should not be
an aggressor. In case of anger which results from
personal conflicts, the prophet Mohammed (PBUH) advises
the angry to remain silent. Because if angry man
evaluates the reaction which he has not accept it.
Therefore the prophet advised the angry man to restrain
himself and remain silent. The prophet also says that
angry man should solve a problem between two persons.
Quran also portrayed anger as a satanic power which
conquers man and pushes him to commit deeds which he
would have not committed if he were in a normal state of
affairs. The prophet Moses dropped the wood boards which
contain the holy words of Allah and caught the head of
his brother and dragged it towards him. This was because
he was angry due to the violation of the teachings of
Allah made by his followers in the absence of Moses. When
anger disappeared and Moses restored his normal mood he
picked-up the wood boards. This shows the effect of anger
which made self-control and self-restrain which is
accompanied with a deep faith in Allah. The prophet
Mohammed (PBUH) praises such self-restrain by saying that
the strong man is not strong by his ability to know-down
but by his ability to exercise self-retain when he is
angry. Avoiding anger can not be avoided by taking
sedative tablets and medicines because such medicines
will give effect only after repeated uses. Moreover, they
make man addictive of such medicines. Anger changes human
behavior and conducts, therefore, for the purpose of
avoiding anger man should change his behavior and adopt a
wise course of solving daily problems and turn his anger
into calmness, balance and tranquility. Dr. Ahmed Shawagi
adds, the psycho therapy found two ways of curing the
angry patient. The first by reducing the sensitiveness to
actions and reactions by training the patient, under the
supervision of a doctor, to practice relaxation and
self-control while facing the same difficult situations
which made him angry before. Hence he becomes capable of
confronting such problems without getting angry or
irritated. The second way of treatment is by adopting
muscle and psychological relaxation. The doctor asks the
patient to remember the difficult and problematic
situations. If the patient was standing he is asked to
lie-down and gets chances of meditation and tranquility.
This method of treatment is adopted by the modern
psychotherapy whereas the prophet Mohammed (PBUH) has
explained it before fourteen centuries. The prophet
Mohammed (PBUH) said if any of you becomes angry while he
was standing he should sit down, if anger does not
disappear then he should lie-down.
Source: Reformation Magazine No.: 296,1994 From the
symposiums of the Association of the scientific Miracles
in Quran, Cairo.
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