Mustafa Khattab – Arrogance 1
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The speaker discusses the concept of arrogance and how it can lead to destruction. They explain that the definition of arrogance is used in the Quran and that it is impossible to be a factor in one's success or loss. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of physical health and the use of fire in the Arab Spring, as factors that can lead to arrogance.
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So in the past few weeks, we
spoke about humility, and
today, we'll talk about the opposite of a,
which is arrogance.
And Allah
says that, Kibria is one of my qualities.
Whoever tries to assume Kibria,
I will destroy
him.
It means arrogant.
But when we describe Allah
as the word used in translation is the
almighty.
The almighty. We don't use the word arrogant
to describe Allah
So one of his qualities is
So again, it's one of the qualities of
Allah. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is the creator.
He is the almighty. He is the all
powerful.
He describes himself in any way. He sees
fit and he does whatever he wants. But
we, as human beings,
you cannot be arrogant because of something that
you didn't create, you cannot be arrogant because
of something you don't have.
Your money, your beauty, it is not something
you created, it is something that Allah
gave you, so you have no control over
it, and therefore, you should not be
proud,
you should not have pride or arrogance because
of it. It is not yours. And therefore,
one day it should be taken away from
you. Beauty,
when you hit old age, maybe you'll lose
it. Knowledge,
forget about it. When you get to some
certain age, then you'll lose that knowledge.
Smaller in the eyes of the people.
Okay?
So there is a pattern in the Quran.
If you read the verses that talk about
the destruction of the arrogant ones,
they are always destroyed because of the very
thing they were proud about.
And if for example, if you look in
this story,
So if you look at the story of
the pharaoh, he says, the kingdom of Egypt
is mine, and all these rivers belong to
me. How did he die?
Drilling.
By the very thing that he was proud
about, Oorah, he drowned.
If you looked at Karuf
Karuf
If you look in the story
Qa'un Korah in Surat Al Qasas,
he was proud because of his palaces and
his money, and he said, I got all
this money and these houses because of my
knowledge, it's not because of Allah. This is
what he says in them. So how did
how was he destroyed?
It says that his house or his spouse
was collapsed with him.
So his house that he was proud of
was the very reason why he was killed.
So in the story of Adam and Iblis
where he was asked to make suzood to
Adam and he refused, and he said it's
unbearable in him. He's created from man and
created from fire. How will the shaitan be
punished in the day of judgment?
By fire.
The very same thing that he was proud
of, the last example, and there are so
many of them.
If you look into the story of Ahab,
A'raf, the reason they rejected according to Surah
al Surah is because they were very tall
and they were very powerful.
When it comes to physical health, they were
probably some of the most powerful people that
walked the face of this earth, and this
is why they rejected.
They used to make their homes inside. They
used to cut their homes inside the mountains,
and they still exist still this day in
the southern part of,
Saudi Arabia and the northern part in the
northern part of Saudi Arabia and southern part
of Jordan. Their homes are still there. So
they denied because they were powerful, and they
said, who is more powerful than us? And
the Aya said, it is Allah who created
you. Who is more powerful than you?
So the Aya said, it's because of this
never destroyed. You look at them when they
are lying around
like empty and hollow,
trees, empty from the inside. So Allah
took away all the muscles, He took away
all the power they had.
Pretty,
this would be the same reason she would
be divorced and she will sit in her
house and nobody will marry her. Okay? This
is one reason.
Also, if you look at the people
who abused their power and their authority, just
look back on the Arab Spring and what
happened,
these people, they became
tired and arrogant because of their power. Unlike
them in power, so they abused people.
Now look at the examples of those who
abused their people because of their power, authority,
and strength.
What happened to them? Some of them were
killed,
some of them ran away, some of them
were burned, some of them