Suppressing anger as religious duty diminishes the provocateur’s power
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
Category: Causal Relationships
- SEED: Essay angle: ‘anger management’ as a premodern spiritual technology vs. modern therapeutic self-help—how both discipline the passions but toward opposite ends (God vs. self-actualization).