Have A Method In Your Madness

The word 'madness' itself lays a great science. This work is enriched with its tremendous opposite meanings. The word 'madness' can be defined as loosing temper or getting angry on something/somebody. But most probably when listening to this word the first meaning that clicks our mind is mentally retarded/ abused/ disturbed. Apart from high ( extreme ) state of mind , it has a reflection to word craze too. The craze can be positive or negative. Like often people are offended from somebody/something that they never miss a single shot to pull the legs of , so this is what? The negative craze. As 'majnu' was crazy for 'laila' , 'Shakespeare' was crazy for 'writing' , 'Hitler' was crazy for 'ruling' and yet the craziest list is illimitable. They say, Mad in literature is genius. If any man is above or very low the normal level then yeah! not me or you but people will state him mad. The extra-ordinaries or coming to the national level we often come to see 'Buzrigs' ( elderly well-educated and experienced people ) are called mad in their respected societies or social circles , because their thinking or philosophies are beyond the limitations of a normal brain like me. Let me give a little example to clear my point further. There was a Buzrig ( saint ) once going to his way through the bridge. He came to see a man sitting near lake with tons of books with him. Buzrig asked 'What are you doing?' The boy said 'I've memorised all of these books.' The Buzrig with a smile as his reply gave to the guy and carried the books and threw them in the lake. The boy cried 'What are you doing?' 'You can't understand it' said the Buzrig. Then the Buzrig pulled out those books which were just like before , not wet. The boy astonishingly asked 'What was that now?' The Buzrig said 'You can't understand it.' So you see this was also a madness cause it is beyond the understanding of a normal person. Excessive keenness is also one of the meaning of madness. Loving or liking somebody or something to an extent is something which everybody has in the form of their hobbies , interests and some do jobs too. But excessive keenness is what everybody doesn't possess , a very small number of people have it and in limited things. Let me give you an example from Qur'an's verses in my own words. Hazrat Ibrahim A.S was pressurised by many of the people to have faith in Namrud The king as god. Now the people who were devotees of Namrud were having excessive keenness to him. Besides the point , Hazrat Ibrahim A.S who was filled in love of the real God also had a specific keenness to God that He could give his life but not faith to Namrud. When people have excessive keenness to individual things they naturally adopt high techs in those things. Let suppose excessive keenness as E.K. Leonardo DA Vince had E.K for painting. Benazir Bhutoo has E.K to work for Pakistan and make it prosperous. Severn Suzuki has a great E.K to secure the world and eradicate global problems. Michael Jackson had E.K to sing pop and dance hip-hop. And I am feeling E.K to get my piece published in Smash. Yet we all should have E.K in different things but positive once in this way we'll be masters in our interests.

Now the question comes How can we have a method in our madness? or I should say How can we have a method in our Anger? Prophet Muhammad ( May Allah bless Him And Peace Be Upon Him ) also had a specific way to show his anger to anybody. He used to face-away from the person he was angry with. But yet our Islam has enlightened on several points that can prevent anger , as , drink a glass of water if you are feeling angry. Sit down if you're standing. Lie down on any surface ( bed ) if you are sitting. Or if all of these do not work leave the place where you are for time being. In many books it is mentioned that if you feel angry offer wudu . I always prefer giving a glass of cold water to anyone angry cause it is helpful to cool down any hot tempered body. but above all of these we should also learn the right use of anger. 1) Using the anger on right person. For example if I had a fight with my sister before school , then I am nary supposed to burst on friends or misbehave with my teacher. 2) Using your anger on right time is pretty notable. Is does not make any sense that anybody is hitting you today for a cause that you hit him or her ten days ago. 3) Using your anger to an extent is somehow the most important thing I consider , because you have to keep some balance on your anger. You can not scold and beat a child because he tore a blank paper but you have to teach him and speak some gentle strict works and that will be a good extent.

When I was 8 , I heard some really dreadful screams outside of home and I rushed to see what is happening. I noticed there were 2 guys fighting , yelling on and abusing each other. They were not even aware of anything but just beating each other. Soon one boy's father came. He started scolding and beating to other boy but not his son. The other guy remained still and very quite. He never shouted or beat back other guy's father. That proves that no matter how much angry you are you can still control you anger. This stage is in your hands its all up to you that how you play the act. Have method in your madness.