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Is it permissible to discharge the energy resulting from suppressing anger by lifting weights for fear of falling into innovation (bid'ah)?

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The Sunnah for someone who wants to alleviate their anger is to seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Shaytan, perform ablution, and change their posture: if standing, they should sit, and if sitting, they should stand. There is no harm in engaging in weightlifting to دفع الغضب ( دفع الغضب means to repel anger or push it away), as long as one does not believe that this is a prescribed act for someone afflicted by it. Scholars have mentioned that among the means of repelling anger is for a person to occupy themselves with something.

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