While the disbelievers put fury in their hearts- the fury  of jahiliyya- God sent His tranquility down on to His Messenger and the believers… (Q48:26)

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Anger is a form of drunkenness. Alcohol is prohibited because it makes us drunk but we often forget that there are many forms of drunkenness and they all have something in common. The drunkenness of anger is just as misleading as the drunkenness of alcohol. It is just as liable to upset judgement, to make us incapable of effective action, because effective action relies on sober judgement. In practice, those who are seized by such anger, lose logic and rationality. They become ineffectual and less effective in achieving their ends.

- Shaykh Hasan Le Gai Eaton

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The particular kind of lack of moderation, sometimes the fury, that we see, is of a very curious character, and is really- it seems to me – new in Islam. Now, suicide bombers and whatever you like to call them, “fundamentalists”, “radicals”, and so on, believe they are serving Islam: not perhaps Allah ta’ala, but serving the religion of Islam, the community of Islam.  But their anger is a very very personal hot egotistical anger, and it seems to me very often that even when they appear to make great sacrifices in the cause of Islam, they are in fact satisfying their egos….

Now another aspect of this particular kind of disease which afflicts certain parts of this umma, this radicalism, whatever you like to call it, relates to ugliness. Now we all know the hadith, “Allah jameel yuhibbul jamaal” (God is beautiful, He loves beauty”). Now one of the particular beauties offered us in this world is the beauty of a serene human face, of a good human face. And the characteristic of the angry man is in fact ugliness. If you look at these photographs which really are scattered in the press almost daily.. If you look at these faces, they are distorted in such a way as to become ugly and profoundly displeasing, and this in itself is surely a sign that such passions- or faces distorted by such passions- are not truly Islamic.

- Shaykh Hasan Le Gai Eaton,

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The Sahaba were people who redressed wrongs when they saw them. But like sidi Gai Eaton said, they did not have anger in their hearts: they did it for Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, and that is the vast difference. We have become like a tribe: Bani Islam. The Muslims have become like a tribe: Bani Islam. “Uqaatilu li ajli qabeelati“: I’m fighting for the sake of my tribe.

- Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

Uniting for the Prophet 2005

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والحمد لله رب العالمين على نعمه كلها

اللهم صلّ وسلم وبارك على سيدنا ومولانا محمد خير البرية

وعلى آله في كل لمحة ونفس عدد ما وسعه علم الله