RUMI: “The protection against God's anger”

[BinZiad]

RUMI: “The protection against God's anger”

Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi (Allah be pleased with him) said:

A sober-minded man said to Jesus,

"What in this existence is hardest to bear?"

"O dear soul," he replied, "the hardest is God's anger,

from which Hell is trembling as we are."

"And what is the protection against God's anger?"

Said Jesus, "To abandon your own anger at once."



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Goft `Isâ-râ yeki hoshyâr sar

"Chist dar hasti ze jomleh sa`b-tar"

Goftesh "Ay jân sa`b-tar kheshm-e Khodâ

keh az ân Duzakh larzad cho mâ"

Goft "Azin kheshm-e Khodâ cheh bovad amân"

Goft "Tark-e kheshm-e khvish andar zamân"



-- Mathnawi IV: 113-115

Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski

"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"

Threshold Books, 1996

(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

[Rasha]

:)

The prophet peace be upon him said: "Leave Anger and I will grant you a house in Paradise"

Jazak Allah khairan for the post

[Nida]

SubhanAllah ....

Also , Allah's Messenger (pbuh) said, "No one has swallowed back anything more excellent in the sight of Allah, Who is Great and Glorious, than anger he restrains, seeking to please Allah most high." ... (Tirmidhi)


Once Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) owed money to Zayd Ibn Sanah. Zayd approached him while he was walking with Umar and grabbed the Prophet by the collar yelling, 'You, the people of Abd al Mutallab, do not pay back your debts!'. Umar defended the Prophet by yelling and shouting back. But the Prophet smiled and said,Umar you should advise me to pay back my debts, and advise Zayd to be kind in the way he demands his rights. Prophet Muhammad paid Zayd back, and more. Zayd humbled by the Prophet's kindness, became a Muslim.

((Source of the above quote is taken from the text, 'Conference of the Books' by Abou el Fadl))

and Allah knows best!


regds-Nida