Page 236 - Seekers Guide Book

The Wisdom of Life
earn a position in Paradise by being forgiving at times of
anger:

for those who spend, both in prosperity and
adversity, who restrain their anger and are
forgiving towards their fellow men—God
loves those who do good works. (Quran
3:135)

Even I used to get angry in my early days, but my anger
led me to self-thinking, which made me realize that
anger yields no result. I then concluded that it was futile
to waste energy on anger.

During 1975, I had written an article for the publication,
Al-Jamiat, where I had narrated the story of how I was
invited to Ahmedabad by a young Muslim engineer
who had set up a factory there. The engineer was a very
competent person. As he was showing me around the
place, we came across a new kind of machinery which
was produced at that time only for export purpose.
While demonstrating the prowess of the machine, he first
pushed on a button and its flywheel started rotating at top
speed. He then pushed another button and the flywheel
immediately changed its direction and started rotating
opposite to the previous position. As I saw this, it struck
me that when matter (or machine) has the quality to
change its direction within seconds, then a human being
should have this ability manifold. After this incident, I
started training my mind to change my emotion within
seconds whenever a situation requiring so arises.

Hence, in moments of rage when our natural tendency is
to speak or react aggressively, we need to instantaneously

235