Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #14 Arrogance

There is one attitude that we'll find in

the Quran and find in anything which has

to do with our spiritual teaching in Islam

that is to

be avoided and and and is to be

discussed

in in-depth way because,

it's

a feeling. It's a way of thinking which

is very negative, and it has to do

with arrogance.

Arrogance is this, excess while you can doubt

yourself, yourself, arrogance is you never doubt yourself.

You think that you get the truth, that

you have the truth, and then you can

teach the truth. And there are 3 things

that are important

that you get it all so you don't

have to listen.

So you don't need the other. It cannot

come from them. And then at the same

time,

is whatever happens to you is as if

you are beyond that. While in Islam, the

first intellectual attitude is never to be arrogant

because we don't know. There is the fur

the starting point of everything is that I'm

trying to know, but I know that I

don't know. And I know even if I

am a sheikh and that I am giving

a fatwa, a legal opinion that Allah knows

best.

So meaning,

That's the essential

teaching that we have, which has to do,

as I said,

with intellectual humility.

And the figure that you have in the

Quran, which is the opposite of this humility

and is expressing arrogance in the way he

was talking to god and not acknowledging the

fact that he was,

to be, respectful

is Iblis.

Iblis,

the way it's it's portrayed in the Quran

is.

He, denied the truth, the very essence of

the truth, knowing that god was the

Wastakbarah.

He was arrogant. He was

full of pride, and and then, Waqadd Amin

al Kaffirim, he was one of those who,

rejected the truth. So this is what we

have in the Quran. This is what we

understand the Quran, and we also have

in. God doesn't like the people who are

who are full of arrogance,

that they are not able to say Allahu

knowing that Allah knows best or at the

same time looking

down,

to the people and then, not respecting their

dignity, thinking that

I get it all. So as much as

there is reason and sometimes we are doubting

ourselves,

so the opposite of doubting ourselves is being

arrogant,

never doubting ourselves,

and teaching and lecturing the world. That's not

the spiritual path. That, even and we find

this with people who are coming with religious

knowledge, with Al Quran, with Sunnah, and the

prophetic traditions and the prophetic example, and they

are quite arrogant,

with the way they are looking at other

human beings with people coming from other religious

traditions.

And this is not what,

our religion is teaching us. This is where

we have to go beyond this arrogance, to

master our arrogance, to reconcile ourself with,

I'm trying to know and

I know that I don't know. So no

space here for arrogance

is just to rely on god to try

to get the truth and at the same

time to try to rely on our fellow

human beings. Because any,

human beings, all the people around us are

helping us to be better human being. No

arrogance

and being full of humility and intellectual

humility.

That's the the path, and this is the

way forward. Remember to tell the people you

love that you love them,

and,

life is fragile.