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Imam Ali (AS) said, The most honourable magnanimity is controlling ones anger and killing ones lustful desires.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : أشْرَفُ المُرُوءَةِ مِلْكُ الغَضَبِ وَ إماتَةُ الشَّهْوَةِ
Similar narrations
- Ghurar al-Ḥikam #7951 Imam Ali (AS) said, The peak of [all] merits is controlling anger and eradicating lustful desires.
- Mīzān al-Ḥikma #2648 Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The fountainhead of merits is the overpowering of anger, and the eradication of desire.