Disciplining anger is reframed as organizing conduct toward God rather than suppressing feeling.

Evidence

You, for example, can think of God when your sister fi with you and not fi back with her be.. cause He commands us to control our anger and be patient. For if you do get angry, you know that you will just gather more sins [dhunub] , but if you are quiet then you are beginning to organize your affairs on account of God and not in accord with your temperament. And then you will realize that your sis.. ter will lose the ability to make you angry, and you will become more desirous [raghiba] of God. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 879

Categorization

• XREF: The pragmatic, behavioral logic of virtue training connects to the Spivak/Ahmad cluster on strategic essentialism and to broader debates about whether religious practice can be read through a secular-liberal frame that assumes inner feeling precedes outward conduct.
• DEFINE: Shows how the da’wa pedagogy inverts the secular-liberal assumption that conduct should express inner sentiment; here outward disciplined conduct is what organizes the self.