The Dangers of Arrogance and The Importance of Humility

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In today's chutzpah, I want to remind ourselves of the dangers of arrogance, and of the importance of humility. Arrogance is one of the cardinal sins of our religion. In fact, Ibn Taymiyyah mentions that the sin of arrogance is typically more despised to Allah than even the sin of sheer arrogance or Kippur is worse than paganism how why? Ibn Taymiyyah says, at least the pagan at least the mushrik occasionally worships Allah. But the arrogant person never worships Allah subhanho wa taala. And this is what we see in the character of bliss, where IBLEES refused to acknowledge the truth. And it is because of this, that the commandments that have come that the Quranic verses that have

come censuring arrogance are some of the most strictest in the Quran, Allah subhana wa Tada links the fire of Jahannam with those who are arrogant, Allah says in the Quran in AlLadhina yestertec Bill Runa and Eva dirty saya the whole Luna Johanna muda 18 Those who are too arrogant to worship me, those are the people that shall enter Jen Jahannam humiliated and Allah subhanho wa Taala mentions in the Quran. Oh, hello, Ababa Johanna Mahalia Dena V ha further beat semeth Well, we'll take a beating and to the doors of Jahannam to dwell forever in it, and what's an evil abode? And who is it for little more take a beating those who are arrogant in this world and our Prophet

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Should I not inform you of every person who will go to jahannam? Do you want me to tell you who the Johanna me is? He said, It is the one who is mistake. They're arrogant, Jabari obnoxious and egotistical. The Prophet system described the Johanna me the one going to jahannam as the one who is arrogant and obnoxious, the one who thinks himself better than other people. That is the one that is going to jahannam no human being has the right to feel arrogant. No human being has the right to feel superior to another created object. And this is why our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that Allah has sworn that no one with an atom's weight

of arrogance shall enter Jannah no one who has kibble in their hearts shall ever enter Jana, Jana is haram for the one who feels himself superior for the one who thinks that he is better for the one who is walking around with a speck of arrogance in his or her heart. And that is why it is so crucial that we examine our hearts are always looking at ourselves. Am I being arrogant? Am I having that sense of Kibera? If so, we need to eliminate and our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam illustrated for us he clarified for us what is the essence of arrogance? Once a man came to the Prophet system and said, Yeah rasool Allah, I like to wear good clothes is this arrogance? Is it

haram for me to look good to look dignified. Our Prophet sallallahu sallam said, No, that's not arrogance. Arrogance is not to live a comfortable life and to enjoy the blessings of Allah. That's not arrogance. What is arrogance? He said explicitly, arrogance is to look down at other people and to reject the truth when it comes to you. He defined arrogance in two categories. One of them is spiritual arrogance. And one of them is the arrogance of this dunya One of them's the arrogance of the deen the other is the arrogance of the dunya. As for the arrogance of the deen. As for the arrogance of the religion, it is to refuse to accept the truth

Do you have a position you think it is right? And then it is proven wrong. And just because you said it and the other person has proven wrong to you, you refuse to accept and of course, he believes is the share of this arrogance. Iblees is the one who began it. He knew that Adam was worthy of such that he knew that he should have obeyed Allah subhanho wa taala. But he refused to accept the truth to the very end. That is the quintessential arrogance of Iblees, knowing the truth, recognizing the truth, and then rejecting it, and that is the worst of the two category. us as Muslims. The definition of Islam is humility. The definition of Islam is to accept the truth wherever it comes

from our Prophet sallallahu sallam said, I'll Hickmott although little movement, wisdom and nuggets of truth, this is something that anywhere you find it the believer picks it from doesn't matter where it comes from ball that will mean means wherever you find it with your enemy, with your friend with an unknown authority, somebody benefits you with knowledge, somebody teaches you something, you will take it and you will thank Allah for it doesn't matter who it comes from. So arrogance, the first category to reject the truth when it is presented to you. And if you find yourself holding a position, and you refuse to ever budge from that position, deep down inside, you know that you're

wrong, but you refuse to budge, realize you are following literally in the footsteps of a bliss. So be careful and fear Allah subhanho wa taala. And the second category of arrogance is a hum to NAS to look down at other people to think that you are better than them for any reason for any reason. If you think you're better than them because of the color of your skin, then you're nothing but a racist if you think you're better than them, because you have more wealth than them, you have more privilege than them, then you are somebody who is obnoxious thinking that just because you have a better bank account, you are better than somebody else. If you think you are better than them

because of religion, then you don't have religion, because if you had religion, you wouldn't have that element of Kibera, never look at other people and say I am better than them. Now, this does not mean that you approve of the other people's lifestyles. If somebody has a sin, and you don't have that sin, you say thank Allah, I don't have that sin. But never think yourself better than the person. You may thank Allah for not having to sin. That's not thinking you're better. But the person you do not know never forget that hadith in Sahih, Muslim of the prophets of some telling us they were two people once upon a time, there were two people, one of them was a drunkard. And the other

one used to go to the mosque all the time worship of Allah subhanho wa Taala every time the mosque goer would pass by the drunkard he would tell him fear Allah go and pray and the drunkard would ignore him. One day, the drunkard got angry at this man. And he said, Who do you think you are? To tell me to always go to the mosque? Go mind your own business? Did Allah place you as my boss? Did Allah put you as my Morocco brother, somebody who's taking care of me now the guy was rude, and it's very wrong for him to say this. But what was the response of this quote unquote, with Turkey? What was the response of the masjid goer, he became angry, and he felt he is better than this drunkard.

And he said Wallah, He, Allah will never forgive you. While law He Allah will never forgive you. Now, the first person was a drunkard. He was a sinner. He's a sinful man. And he said something rude. He was obnoxious, he shouldn't have done that. The second person became the judge, jury and executioner. The second person took on the status of Allah azza wa jal and said you're never going to be forgiven. The prophets Allah Allah said them said, Allah said to that man, and who are you to speak in my name? Who are you to say who can be forgiven or not? Because of that one statement, Allah, this hadith, Allah is saying in the Hadith, because of that one statement, all of your good

deeds have gone to waste, and I have forgiven that man, the man was a sinner, but deep down inside, he knew he was a sinner. He wasn't arrogant guess Allah. He knew he is a sinner. He knew that he is doing something wrong. He became irritated with another human being, and that is a sin. But there's no arrogance there. As for the one who's going to the mosque all the time, the one who thought himself better, he suffered from the sin of arrogance. And he said, I'm going to Jana, you're going to jahannam and that attitude was a bigger sin in the eyes of Allah than a lifetime of the drunkards evil. So we understand what it means to be arrogant here to think you are better than somebody. And

again, don't mix the two things. You may thank Allah for having elements of piety Yes, you thank Allah you're going to the masjid Yes, you see somebody who's drunkard you said hamdulillah I'm not doing that sin okay. But do not ever think that you as an individual have a higher status in the eyes of Allah than another person because you do not know your fate and you do not know that person's fate and

That is why the importance of humility is something that the Quran constantly reminds us of, because the only antidote to arrogance is humility. Humility is what we are instructed to do. It is what all the prophets of Allah were instructed to do. Allah subhanho wa Taala mentions the people of Jana in the under circle for on the AR 15 characteristics and the first characteristic that Allah mentions of the people of Jana. Why are you bow to Raman and lithium Shuna out of the hole, the number one characteristic 115 are going to be mentioned. By the way tahajjud comes number five by the way, making dua at night comes number six number one on this verse, why a ba da Rahman a lady and I am

Shona Allen out of the house. The servants of Allah are those who under walking around in front of others, they're walking with humility. They don't have arrogance wherever they are. Their hearts are humble. They don't have a speck of arrogance in their hearts and Allah azza wa jal praises the Sahaba by saying the loot in idle mode meaning they are humble with the believers, Allah praises the Sahaba by saying I should doubt why the kuffaar Ohama obey know whom they are strict with those who oppose Allah and His messenger and their merciful and tender with those who are believers, their mercy, their humility, their humbleness is in front of all to see and in fact, the Arabic word for

humility is also very profound. The Arabic word for humility is the Waldorf, the Waldorf, and it comes from Wawa and walga literally means every out of here knows it means to put something down, whereby you put it down on the ground. That's what what that means. So toward or you lower your ego that is in the meaning of the word humility. To Waldo, it means you're constantly working on your ego, to lower it down to the ground. That's the very definition. The linguistic definition of humility is you erase your ego, you're always putting your ego down in your own head, and you're not considering yourself to be an arrogant person. And our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam just like

he told us they weren't going to join them is the one who's arrogant, he said, Should I not tell you of the one whom Jahannam has been made haram, for whom Jahannam has been made haram for Kulu Hagin in Legion, and everyone who is humble and easygoing. Jahannam is haram. For him. Everyone who's humble and who's easygoing, you get along with them, they don't have an ego. They don't have a pride issue. That person Jahannam has been made haram for him. And of course, this is complimentary. If Jahannam is meant for the Motika bidding for bid semeth One what's a kabillion? Oh, the Hulu awaba Johanna Marina V ha Allah literally says Johanna is for the arrogant people. So then Who do you

think Jahannam is haram for everybody who has humility, everybody who doesn't have arrogance, that person will never enter Jahannam and in fact, look at the stories of humility in the Quran. And again, as always, 100 But how much can we say but look at the stories of humility in the Quran. Allah subhanho wa Taala mentions to our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to Wakefield Jana Hakka little more meaning lower your wings ya rasool Allah to the believers. This is a metaphor, it's a parable lower your wings to the believers don't even be arrogant amongst them. And that is why when people visited Medina, they entered into the masjid, they could not tell who the Prophet sallallahu

sallam was, and who advocate on Omar where they couldn't tell because everybody acted the same around the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we know that an STD Malik said that when the Prophet saw some entered the room, we would not even stand up for him because we knew he didn't like being shown that outdoor respect he didn't like that people stand up when he's walking in their presence. We know from the Quran as well, that Musa alayhis salam, the Surah Al Kahf. When he said to the people, I am the most knowledgeable amongst you, Allah azza wa jal sent Gibreel down to chastise Musa and Judy will said to Musa or Musa How could you say something that you have no right to say

Verily there is a servant Allah has given knowledge you do not have and then the story of Heather begins. It's it doesn't say Buhari. And we also have in the story of Solomon at his Salam, that when Solomon saw all the blessings that He had, our scholars mentioned that perhaps something of a westwards that came into his heart, and he might have felt something and so Allah subhanho wa Taala sent a small Sparrow, a small bird, and the bird said to him, that I have come from a land you have no knowledge of, and I'm going to bring you news that you do not know before, and I'm telling you from the King or the Queen of Sheba, and the story goes on, that little bird was sent to Saudi man

to remind him also a man you might have control over the wind, also a man you can control the jinn oh sorry, man, you have the kingdom like no one else has, but this should not give you the right to feel anything superior. So Allah sent the smallest creature which is that bird and Allah azza wa jal also demonstrated that the ant has some hikma and wisdom that caused Suleiman to laugh the scholar

As mentioned, these stories are told to us to remind us that even Suleiman despite all that he had, he did not earn or he did not have that of himself. He had no right to feel anything. Allah azza wa jal is teaching us humility through all of this. And of course, in the seerah of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we see the perfect embodiment of what it means to be a humble person. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would give Salam to the young and to the old to the men and the women. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would teach the younger children there are many instances playing with them picking them up in the air, our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

would do his own chores as Aisha said he would milk his own chi Campbell and goats, he would mend his own cludes truckloads. He would even fix his own shoe. Can you imagine rasool Allah says and picking up his shoe and mending and putting it himself as our mother, our issue said, and he, as we know as well that he would take care of his own needs and not command out issues around the house, our Prophet sallallahu Sallam as well intervene to solve a marital dispute between a slave woman and a slave man, he intervened and he tried to reconcile them, our Prophet sallallahu I think he was sunnah would be the first to greet somebody, and the first to put his hand out, and the last to put

his hand back our Prophet salallahu alayhi salam, wherever he went, whoever he interacted with the one who he spoke with thought that he was the most beloved of the Sahaba every Sahabi thought he was the center of attention, every Sahabi thought nobody is more beloved than I am. And this is one note, in instance, Ramadan that I asked when he asked the Prophet system who's your favorite Sahabi thinking he was on that list. And of course, he wasn't even on that whole list until he became quiet. But the point is, I'm going to ask assumed he was the favorite Sahabi. Why, because of the humility and the love that the prophets of Allah, whoever you send them had when he interacted with

them, and our Prophet saw the sun would visit the sick, and he would go out of his way, even non Muslim, the Jewish neighbor that he had, he visited the Jewish child when that child was sick, and our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would attend the funerals of the sahaba. And he would go to the cemetery and make dua for them. And he made a special to offer that slave lady who passed away and they didn't even wake him up. But he in the next morning said, No, take me to her grave, and he made a point to make dua for her. And our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would not be embarrassed to wear the regular clothing of his people, and he would ride on a donkey even though

donkeys were not what you what you wrote when you're a rich person, or when you're the king yet that was his main method of transport and our Prophet sallallahu wasallam forbade the Sahaba from excessively praising him or from standing up in his presence, all of this to show us what it means to be humble and all of this so that we understand that he was a role model in every single issue. In fact, in one Hadith it is mentioned that he was giving a hutzpah and he told the Sahaba this beautiful hadith is a very powerful Hadith and he used his hands to demonstrate and he said mentor while by the law he Rafa Allahu Allah azza wa jal, he used his left hand and his right hand, whoever

humbles himself for the sake of Allah, he used his left hand to lower himself whoever humbles himself for the sake of Allah. Then with the right hand, he raised it up, Allah will raise him up, whoever has the welder, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada will raise him up. And this is one of the beautiful ironies of humility. Think about it. Who do you really respect? Do you respect the one who is arrogant? Or do you respect the one who is humble? Isn't it so profoundly ironic? Manta Waldo Isla Rafa hula, if you are truly humble, guess what? You will be beloved and respected by mankind. Isn't it so amazing? If you truly have to Waldorf, you eliminate Kippur from your heart, you think

yourself worthy of nothing? What will happen? Allah will write the love of the people and the people will respect you because you didn't do it for them. You did it for Allah subhanho wa Taala and the one who wants the people's respect, and the one who is pompous, and the one who spends money so that he thinks that people will respect him and the one who acts like an obnoxious person. Does anybody actually respect him? No, even the people that surround these types of personalities, they do so because of the worldly perks that they get. And as soon as the money disappears, and as soon as the power disappears, those friends disappear as well. And this is the sunnah to Allah, if you're

healthy, the reality of all of the Creation around us, therefore you truly want to be beloved by Allah, beloved by the angels, beloved by the people. Be humble. Allah will love you, the angels will love you, the people will love you. And if you aim for the people's pleasure, and if you aim for the people's respect, not only will you not get it, you will also lose out on the pleasure of Allah subhanho wa Taala

Some of our scholars of the past was asked what exactly is humility? How do we define humility. One of them said, humility is that you do not consider yourself worthy of the blessings you have. So the blessings that you have you feel, I don't deserve this now. don't deserve this doesn't mean you don't take advantage of it. You thank Allah and you live the life that Allah has given you. This does not mean that you don't live the life Allah has given you our prophets are so damn whatever he was gifted, he wore good food came, he ate, he loved me he loved Hello, we know this. So humility does not mean you give up the dunya humility means if you have it, you don't consider yourself

worthy of it. You thank Allah Allah has given me you never say this is because of me. Like karoon said, this is because of me, I have all of this wealth, that is what Kibet is. But if you say Alhamdulillah, and then you benefit from what Allah has given you, that is not arrogance. Also, others have defined arrogance or humility to mean that Ubuntu is either Asami, the famous chef of the past, and the famous gnostic, or we use either the psalmist said that humility is to think of yourself as the most sinful human being on earth. You think of yourself, you're the most ungrateful despite all that Allah has given you, you haven't thanked Allah the way that he deserves. So this is

another element of humility, that you think of yourself as a sinful person, and perhaps even the most sinful, or I should say, the most ungrateful person on earth, Abdullah Abdullah Mubarak was asked what is humility, and he said, the height of humility, is that the one and this is a very profound, it's a bit long, so pay attention. The height of humility, is that the one who has less than you in terms of wealth and dunya should never feel that because you have more you are better, and that the one who has more than you should realize in your presence, that he is not better than you because he has more than you. In other words, when you're interacting with the people, your

dignity speaks for your humility, those that have less, don't feel that they have less than your presence, and those that have more, they appreciate you have something they do not have. That is the essence of humility, and therefore the brothers and sisters, one of the goals of this whole but one of the purposes with hookah, we begin to analyze our heart, we began to check Do we truly have humility or not, and we begin to monitor it. And of course, to conclude the first Hoda, I have to briefly list what are some of the blessings of humility? Why should we aim to be humble, first and foremost of the blessings of humility is that it forces us to count the blessings of Allah and it

forces us to count our sins. You cannot be humbled without recognizing Allah's blessings on you, and without recognizing that you haven't repaid Allah the way he deserves to be repaid. And that is a big blessing to know Allah's blessings and to recognize how short you have fallen in repaying them. Secondly, of the blessings of humility is that humility leads us to be patient and content. When you're humble, you're content. You're happy with what you have. When you're humble, then you are, relatively speaking, satisfied with the life that you live. And when you're arrogant, you're always looking to the higher ladder. The next rung, also of the blessings of humility is that humility

leads us to have good manners and humility allows us to control our tongue. The one who is humble, doesn't speak obnoxious words, the one who is humble, doesn't throw his weight around. Humility leads us to a clock and our Prophet sallallahu wasallam said, the best of all things on the skills and judgment day will be good o'clock and of the blessings of humility, a worker so the accent is is attained through the wall door, Allah honors you when you're humble. We're already quoted the Hadith you truly want to be honored by Allah, by the angels by mankind, eliminate your ego and Allah azza wa jal will write humility for you. And the final point in our first football and of course, the

most important one, humility opens the door to Jannah and shuts the door of Jahannam the one who has humble can never enter Jahannam look at the remember the one of the sinner who was a drunkard versus the one who was arrogant. The drunkard eventually enters Jannah and that arrogant worshiper was denied Jana humility opens the doors to Jana, that prostitute who lived her life doing evil, she was a humble lady. She asked Allah's forgiveness. She did one good deed and Allah forgave her because of what she had done because she was humble. She was not arrogant. This is not a justification to do sin. It is an encouragement to be humble humility opens the doors to Jannah and shuts the door to

jahannam May Allah subhana wa Allah bless me and you with and through the Quran. And May He make us of those who is versus they understand and who implemented halal and haram throughout our lifespan. I asked Allah's forgiveness he was will ask is the food or human

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Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Hill wa had it I had a summit, Allah De La Miel it Voila, mula. Voila Mia culpa hookah foreign, Eduardo. What are some of the practical steps that we can use to attain a sense of humility? A few points number one, knowledge, anything you do you begin with knowledge, knowledge of the blessings of humility, knowledge of the dangers of arrogance, knowledge of what happens when your humble knowledge of the verses and the Hadith in which Allah has criticized arrogance, you begin every journey in this dunya and even of the next every journey, you begin with him. So learn the blessings of humility, learn the signs of humility, learn the dangers of

arrogance, and learn the signs of arrogance, number two, to five according to the book, self reflection, no one can cure the spiritual diseases other than you. You cannot go to a doctor for your own spiritual diseases. You are the doctor of your own heart. You have to monitor the symptoms you have to self assess. Am I being arrogant here? Is there a sense of ego getting involved here so that to the board and self reflection, being vigilant and monitoring your heart at the first signs of arrogance, making sure that you ask Allah azza wa jal for to order for humility. Number three of the ways to guarantee or to bring about humility is to participate in activities that others might

think is beneath you. Others might think it is not suitable for you. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did his own chores, and he didn't have to do that. He had an ascetic nomadic, all of his mothers, our wives, all of his wives, our mothers, all of them would have loved to do anything he wanted, but he wouldn't command them around, he would stand up and get his own water, he would stand up and milk his own animal he would stand up and fix his own shoe. Of these The reasons are scholars mentioned to be a role model of humility, as well. Our Prophet sallallahu isonem participated in building the masjid himself, and he didn't need to build the Masjid. But he stood in line and he

passed big brick by brick just like the other Sahaba were doing. He passed brick by brick and Jabra says I swear by Allah, I saw his whole job, his whole garment dirty with the dust of those bricks, that's what he was doing in the Battle of the Trench. He jumped down in the trenches, and he was digging along with everybody else in the incident of taboo when they were when they were going to the journey and they had to share one camel for three people and he had with him Ibn Abbas and I did have the Allahu and the two of them said Yasuda Allah, you stay on the camel, we will walk through Don't worry about us you stay on the camel. And he smiled and he said, Neither am I any older than

the both of you even though he was older, but he's cracking a joke here. I'm not some old person that you're telling me not to walk. Nor am I somebody who doesn't need that reward, we will share the camel and he insisted to walk his turn. And they right there turns walk and wide rock and right all three of them took turns. He insisted to do that, even though of course they offered as they should have offered but he refused to do that. These are some of the ways that we can bring about humility as well of the ways to bring about humility. And this is the final point for our second hold both of the ways we bring about humility Dear Brothers and Sisters, we ask Allah for humility.

If we don't ask Allah if we don't make dua, then how will anything happened for us? We ask Allah azza wa jal to grant us the world or we seek refuge in Allah azza wa jal from Kibber. This is of the ways that we get what we want by making dua to Allah subhanho wa taala. These are some of the mechanisms that we can use to try to bring about humility. We ask Allah azza wa jal to bless us in this world and the next I'm going to make dua say I mean, Oh Allah, we ask that you do not allow any of our sins to remain except that you have forgiven them and all of our worries except that you have dispersed them and our sicko Allah we asked her to cure them and our debt so Allah we ask that you

repay them and our difficulties of Allah We ask that you eat them and every need of ours in this world are the next that you are pleased with and brings us benefit we ask that you give it to us and fulfill it with your your Rama or hamara Amin, O Allah, we ask You that You bring glory to Islam and its people and the OMA of Allah make it blessed and peaceful and protected from those who desire for an evil with your power Jaco you yah as these servants of Allah, Allah Subhana Allah to Allah has commanded you with a matter that he began with himself and he followed it up by asking the angels themselves and then he followed it through by commanding us ourselves to do for he says in the Quran

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