 among them was the difficulty in pleasing and excessive anger. i continued to treat that until i stopped at completely abandoning the display of anger in speech action and confusion. i refrained from what was not permissible in terms of victory and i bore a great burden from that and endured a painful resentment that might have made me sick. that made me unable to be pleased and it was as if i had forgiven myself for that because it represented that abandoning that was meanness.
 فمنها كلف في الرضاء وإفراط في الغضب، فلم أزل أداوي ذلك حتى وقفت عند ترك إظهار الغضب جملة بالكلام والفعل والتخبط، وامتنعت مما لا يحل من الانتصار وتحملت من ذلك ثقلا شديدا وصبرت على مضض مؤلم كان ربما امرضني، وأعجزني ذلك في الرضى وكأني سامحت نفسي في ذلك، لأنها تمثلت ان ترك ذلك لؤم.