For when a person becomes angry, his very being is stirred: the veins in his neck swell, his eyes redden, and he yearns to take revenge. If, however, he suppresses that fury and settles down, such self-restraint is a cause for entering Paradise.

Know, then, that anger is a live coal which Satan casts into the heart of the son of Adam whenever something provokes him. Yet the Prophet ﷺ has shown us how to extinguish that coal. Among the remedies he prescribed are:

• to seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan. Thus, whenever one senses anger—when he feels it about to overwhelm him—he says: aʿūdhu billāhi min al-shayṭān al-rajīm (I seek refuge in Allah from Satan the Accursed);

• to change posture: if standing, he should sit; if already seated, he should lie down—lowering himself from a higher position to a lower: standing to sitting, sitting to reclining;

• to perform wuḍūʾ, washing the four limbs of ablution—the face, the hands, the head, and the feet—for