One of the Arabs described the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, saying: “When victorious, he does not become arrogant; when defeated, he does not become impatient.”

Since Satan calls people in these two circumstances to overstep the bounds with their hearts, voices, and hands, the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade this. When he saw Ibrāhīm in his death throes, he was asked, “Are you weeping? Did you not forbid weeping?” He replied: “I only forbade two foolish, sinful sounds: a sound at a time of blessing—frivolity, play, and the pipes of Satan—and a sound at a time of calamity—slapping cheeks, tearing garments at the neckline, and raising the cries of the days of ignorance.” Thus, he linked the two sounds together.

As for his prohibition of such conduct during calamities, an example is his saying, may Allah bless him and grant him peace: “He is not one of us who slaps his cheeks, tears his garments at the neckline, and raises the cries of