O Level Islamic Studies by Ahsan Naqvi

Control Your Tongue- An Islamic Perspective Most of the conflicts in this world arise from our speech whether they are personal, national or even international. We say something without realizing the deep effects and results leaving behind us. The roots of most of the psycho problems are in the use of uncontrolled use of tongue. We cannot imagine those deep scars we leave behind when we insult a person abusing them or using a sarcastic language. The holy Prophet Mohammad (saw) has stopped us hurting others. Many Ahadith of the Prophet (saw) ask us to avoid such words which hurt others. In a long Hadith, the Prophet emphasized on encouraging the worshipping of God through prayers, charity, fasting and pilgrimage to Makkah (Hajj) but at the end of the Hadith, he says that all these things are useless. Then he held his tongue and said: “control it and do not be careless of using it”. One of the companions said:  “Will Allah ask us about whatever we say?” The Prophet said: “Yes,

Anger-Islamic Perspective Anger is one of those human weaknesses which, most of the time, causes many different troubles.It creates numerous social problems. Most of the crimes are committed when a person is in a state of rage and loses his mental control. It also causes many physical problems. It is one of the important reasons of high blood-pressure, hypertension, loss of facial beauty and other related diseases. The Prophet (saw) himself was a soft person and he has taught humanity to control their anger as much as possible. The most difficult task for an individual is to control his inner-self (nafs). The Prophet (saw) says: “The real wrestler and fighter is not the one who defeats his opponent in fight but the one who controls himself at the time of anger” (Al Bukhari and Al Muslim). Once a man asked the Prophet (saw) to advice him something. The Prophet said: “Make it a habit to control your anger”. This man asked to advice something else but the Prophet repeated the same