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MEDINCINE BASED ON ACTION: When you get angry, say: I seek refuge to God from the accursed devil. The Prophet ordered us to say thus. He also recited this at the time of his anger. When Ayesha got angry, he dragged her by the nose and said: O dear Ayesha, say: O God, you are the Lord of my Prophet

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Muhammad, forgive my sins and remove the anger of my heart and save me from misguidance. This is good. (2)Ifangerdoesnot go by this means, you will sit down if you are standing, lie down if. you are sitting and come near earth, as you have been created of earth. Thus make yourself calm like the earth. The caused of wrath is heat and its opposite effect is to lie down on the ground and to make the body calm and cool.

The Prophet said: Anger is a burning coal. It burns in heart.
Don't you see your eye-brows wide and eyes reddish? So when one of you feels like that , let him sit down if standing, and lie down if sitting. If still anger does not stop, make ablution with cold water or take bath, as if cannot be extinguished without water. The Prophet said: When anyone of you gets angry, let him make ablution with water as anger arises out of fire. In another narration anger comes from the devil and the devil is made of fire. Fire can be extinguished by water. So when anybody amongst you gets angry, he shall make ablution. He said: When you get angry, take to silence. Hazrat Abu Hurairah reported that when the Prophet got angry, he sat down from standing position and lay down from sitting position and then his wrath appeased. Hazrat said: Become careful, anger is burning coal in the mind of the son of Adam. Have you not looked at his reddish eyes and wide eye-brows? When you see nay of it signs, let him attach his face to earth. He hinted at prostration by this and said to keep the most honourable place among the limbs attached to the earth and to keep it calm.

It has been reported that when Hazrat Omar got angry one day, he wanted cold water his nose therewith and said: Anger comes from the devil and water removes anger. When Urwa-b-Muhammed was appointed Governor of yemen, Obay said to him: When you get angry, look to the heaven above and to the earth below and consider the Creator of both as supreme.

It has been narrated that Abu Zarr said to a man: O son of red mother (son of a maid servant). This news reached the Prophet who said: O Abu Zarr, I heard that you have back-bited your brother Muslim mentioning his mother. He said: Yes. Abu Zarr at once went to the man to please him but the man came to him before and tendered salam. This news reached the Propht who said: O Abu Zarr, raise up your head up wards and look and then know that you are not better than a red or a black man.

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Superiority is acquired only by action. Then he said: When you get angry, sit down from standing posture and lie down straight from sitting posture.