Bite your tongue
Everything
we say and do in life has consequences. Just like throwing a stone into a pond,
sends ripples across the water affecting all around it. We are free to say and
do as we choose but the consequences of our words and actions are our
responsibility.
How many times have hasty words been spoken making a wedge between once loving
friends or spouses?
Sometimes we think something bad about a person and in anger or when emotions
are high, we make those thoughts vocal. If we could have waited a little, these
negative thoughts may well have been replaced with more kindly ones.
To speak or act while in a state of anger is really a mistake. It is a good idea
to bite your tongue and wait until the next day. If the same level of emotions
are present, then speak out, but chances are you will have forgotten why you
were angry.
{The good deed and the evil deed cannot be equal. Repel (the evil) with one
which is better (i.e. Allah ordered the faithful believers to be patient at the
time of anger, and to excuse those who treat them badly), then verily! He
between whom and you there was enmity, (will become) as though he was a close
friend.} (Sura Fussilat 41:34)
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