Faraz Rabbani – The Rawha #206 How to Avoid SelfSatisfaction

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Someone mentioned that how does one avoid self

praise?

That if I'm successful

in my work, in my career, you know,

things are going well, how do I avoid

being

conceited, having self praise,

and just self concerned?

And one of the great imams of Islam,

has a beautiful brief aphorism about this. And

this is aphorism number 242

of his hikam. He says,

That the believer is busied

by praising Allah

from

being too appreciative

of their own good.

Right? And Shukr

is appreciation.

Right? So the believer, meaning the true believer,

is busied

by the praise of Allah

from being too

engrossed in seeing the good that they do

and appreciate I did this and that. Why?

The prophet

said,

Whoever finds good, let them praise Allah. Ascribe

it to Allah

and keep ascribing it to Allah till you

don't see its description to yourself.

Right? And this is one of the things

that Ulema mentioned that anytime

you

feel

that I did it,

go to the corner, like go make wudu,

pray 2 rakas,

thank Allah for it, and remain thanking Allah

until

gratitude

to Allah

drowns out

self praise.

Because,

You have no blessing whatsoever except that it

is from Allah.

Allah. Allah has created you and all that

you do.

So this is a key to avoid conceit

and self praise and being deluded by your

own success.

Right? That the true believer is busied by

praise of Allah

from

being too appreciative

of their own self.

And they're busied, he continues. And he's busied,

and the true believer is busied

by the rights of Allah from

having

too much concern

for their own

selfish interests.

I need this and I need this. I

have to do this. I have to do

that.

The believer

And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

grant us that

that explicit faith

that enables us to put

him

before our own selves.

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