Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #14 Arrogance
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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.