Tom Facchine – Eye-Opening Definition Of Arrogance

Tom Facchine
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The speaker discusses the concept of arrogance and how it can lead to pride. They explain that being confident in Islam is just a matter of trusting oneself and not just a matter of arrogance. The speaker also emphasizes that arrogance can be a result of rejecting the truth, rather than just a reflection on one's own success or failure.

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			The prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, defined arrogance. He
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			said that it's not accepting the truth
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			when it comes to you,
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			not accepting the truth when it comes to
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			you and belittling people.
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			Right? That's how he said it, Alayhi Salaam.
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			So the difference between that and confidence is
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			very clear.
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			To be confident,
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			you know, you can think about you're confident
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			in the existence of Allah
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			You're confident that Islam is the truth. You're
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			confident that the Sharia is the best system
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			for human you know, to facilitate human happiness
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			and and piety.
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			K. That doesn't make you arrogant, and this
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			is something that a lot of, you know,
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			materialists
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			get wrong. They think that to be
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			certain about something is to be arrogant. No,
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			it's not.
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			You're just confident.
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			You know, I'm confident in my Creator. I'm
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			confident in his ability to do whatever he
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			wants. I'm confident in his plan and in
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			his wisdom. I'm confident in Islam, confident in
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
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			Does that make me arrogant? Do I think
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			that I'm better than other people? No.
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			I could be a big phony, I could
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			might be a hypocrite, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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			might have a a horrible punishment in store
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			for me. It has nothing to do with
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			arrogance.
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			Right? But that's the difference.
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			If you think, you know, some people use
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			their beliefs as really just a
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			an exercise in their own ego.
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			Right? They're not really interested in submitting themselves
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			to
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			a system of beliefs or anything like that.
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			They really just want to virtue signal. Right?
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			They want it to signal back to their
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			own virtue. So that would be arrogance. You
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			say that, well, this makes me this and
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			I'm this because you believe in that. Right?
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			That could be arrogance.
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			But this is the the, you know,
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			the rule that the prophet
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			showed us is that arrogance has to do
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			with rejecting the truth when it comes to
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			you and belittling other people.