by god i used to hate for you to be excessively content for fear that it would lead to excessive passion. so what do you think of excessive anger and overwhelming rage especially from someone who has become accustomed to neglecting himself and has not trained himself to patience and has not shown himself the place of luck in tasting the bitterness of forgiveness and that the intended meaning of matters is their consequences not their immediate outcomes?
والله لقد كنت أكره لك سرف الرضا مخافة جواذبه إلى سرف الهوى. فما ظنك بسرف الغضب، وبغلبة الغيظ، ولا سيما ممن قد تعود إهمال النفس ولم يعودها الصبر، ولم يعرفها موضع الحظ في تجرع مرارة العفو، وأن المراد من الأمور عواقبها لا عواجلها.