Yousef Bakeer – The Arrogance Trap How It Blinds You from Embracing the Truth
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He says all believers have taqwa in Allah subhanho wa Taala and
Taqwa means that we should be conscious of Allah subhanaw taala.
We should be aware of ALLAH SubhanA wa taala. And we should
protect ourselves from his punishment and his wrath.
And we shouldn't allow ourselves to die, except in the state of la
ilaha illAllah Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
I begin my whole life by asking Allah subhanho wa Taala first and
foremost, to send blessings and prayers to our beloved prophet
muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, la masala you're selling
one mo barik ala Nabina. Habib ana Muhammadan wala Le he was asked me
you are selling to Sleeman Kathira Well, hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen
My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Islam As salam o alaikum
warahmatullah wabarakatuh.
In a hadith collected by Muslim and narrated by Abdullah nobis
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Laia told Jana man can
feel called me he myth called with a rotten mean kibosh. He said
those who have even a weight of an atom of arrogance will never enter
pair this.
And then in the Hadith Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam was asked, what is the definition of arrogance.
And also allah sallallahu Sallam defined what arrogance is he said,
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He said arrogance is basically one of these two things. Number one,
is to deny truth out of your arrogance.
Our arrogance gets in the way and reject truth. So that's his first
definition of work of arrogance. And then the second definition of
arrogance, he said, gone to NASS meaning that your arrogance makes
us people down.
Makes us walk in and think that we are better than than anyone else.
Thinking that we're better thinking that we're more valuable,
that we have something special that we're so special.
We're so special. That feeling that you really think the other
people are not worth
of value.
And you got it all.
That's the second definition of the Prophet about arrogance. So
I'll say it again. One of these two things for sola sola sallam
said, either your arrogance Rasul here is talking to all of us. Your
arrogance gets in the way and you reject truth or you're being
condescending and put people down. Just because you think that you're
better than someone else.
And I want to talk today in this short in this short hold by
Inshallah, to Allah about the second part, which is
completeness, thinking that you are better than someone else, and
Subhanallah that actually started from the beginning of the creation
of men from Adam Alayhis Salam since Adam Alayhis Salam.
And we all know the story of bliss when he actually rejected to
prostrate to Adam Alayhis Salam when he was asked, and it was a
demand by Allah subhanaw taala and his justification, he said Anna,
Cairo men who
I am better than him. Hello, Tony Minnaar Hello Octoman teen
Subhanallah just think about this. He was actually making an argument
that he's better than Adam Alayhis Salam just because he was created
from hellfire. And Adam was created from dirt.
So he's just justify, you know, trying to justify why he should
not prostrate to Allah subhanaw taala.
I want to walk you through the history of humanity until our day
and time and you will find Subhanallah This is a very
dangerous disease. It started from the beginning of creation of men.
Prophets came after Prophet Adam, and they were all rejected. And if
you think why they were rejected
The core problem was their arrogance.
Prophet Muhammad Salem, I don't mean to laka what debacle or the
Loon, you want us to believe in your message. And those idiots,
those weak, those poor people are actually believing with you, and
you want us to share that belief with them. We're not going to do
that.
So the arrogance made them even blind. They're not criticizing the
content. They're not criticizing the message. Their arrogance got
in the way. And they rejected the whole thing, just because there's
some poor people actually believe in the same, the same message.
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam same thing,
the elite of Quraysh, those who you know are more educated, more
rich.
Maybe they're white.
And they're there and they're listening to Allah subhanaw taala
his words, the words are so beautiful and powerful. One time
they actually heard certain natural towards the end of source
energy, and the old prostrate to Allah subhanaw taala. Out of the
beauty of the Quran.
The words of Quran were not the issue for them, the message itself
was not the issue. Even the Prophet was not the issue. They
actually used to love the Prophet sallallahu Sallam used to love
him. used to call him a Saudi Amin, the most trustworthy, the
most honest,
the Prophet himself his personality, who he is, was not
the problem.
The problem was once again, one more time the problem was
arrogance. You want us to believe in the same thing that these
slaves believe?
Are these poor people this week, people, we're not going to do
this. And then we're going to be restricted to Allah and then we're
going to be treated the same on the Day of Judgment. We're not
going to do that we're actually better than them. We should have a
special treatment.
We have such a special possession.
Right? Think about it. Think about it. And subhanAllah until now,
until now, we find it in our community where Arabs were better.
The Quran was revealed to us. The Quran came with our language.
We're better than Pakistan, Indians and DCS.
We got the prophet the prophet is Arab.
And then block others just because this this, this, you this, this
justification. And then
this is Kim and say, you know, what are the large largest Muslim
across the globe?
Islam was spread widely in our lands. We understood the Prophet
Muhammad Salah Salem has words better.
We even speak Arabic sometimes. And we have scholars that even
speak Arabic better than the Arabs
and that and this is reviving what? Think about it. First it
came from what arrogance, and reviving what Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu Sallam fought against Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam
it could easily his messages easily be accepted if he said you
know what guys, you are the leaders you're the most privileged
people here the message is primarily is for you. You're going
to have special treatment. His message his struggle was will will
come to an end with this
so again, as a community we have this issue as well. Arrogance even
we have some arrogance towards the reverse.
We think that they're less you know, religious than us. They just
came to slant they just you know, just revert to Islam man. We got
it all we were born Muslims. We know everything about this Deen.
And sometimes we fail to understand that all of the Sahaba
all of those who build this huge empire. All of those who built the
OMA were actually reverts until now we mentioned their names Abu
Bakr Omar Earth man I lay all of these habits are reverts. They
weren't born Muslims.
The converted to Islam the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam started his dA.
So again, all of these comments coming from what?
From arrogance, even the way you were given the see how to each
other first,
arrogance could be in the way you give Naziha or arrogance could be
in the way you receive the nasiha
goes both ways.
The way you give them a car, you should check your intention before
you give them a car.
We all should have that should check your intentions. Why am I
getting this car? From first of all from
From from from the beginning.
First of all, why am I giving dyslexia to this brother? Is it
because I want to feel good about myself afterwards? Is that because
I feel maybe insecure? And I will feel great afterwards, you know,
humiliating someone?
Is this all about? Why am I giving them a see? How do we even? Do I
even know that that person, when you give us your heart to someone,
they're basically they're actually rules have given us Yeah. If
you're giving a personal Naziha, you cannot give it unless you
really deeply know who this brother or who the sister is. And
your relationship allow you to get out of your way and give nasiha.
So why you're giving this nasiha? Ask yourself this question what my
simple question before you give this? Not yet. Let's see, I just
asked this question. Simple. Why am I giving this nausea?
And then the way you receive the nausea? There are some people may
Allah subhanaw taala protect us all. They see I mean,
they,
the way they receive the Naseeha
their arrogance gets in the way.
Why am I going to actually listen to this brother, even though he
thinks something actually very valuable.
He's talking about something that you really should work on.
But my arrogance gets in the way, I'm just not going to accept any
words from him, I'm good. And that actually takes us to the second
reason, or the second symptom
of arrogance, and which is covering up your flaws.
And instead of bettering ourselves, we actually make the
other worse.
Just covering up our shame. By being arrogant.
I see you doing doing good in your life, I will have to find a
comment about it.
You're getting a new job. Well, you don't know how this guy got
the job, this job.
You're actually passing your exams, and I'm failing. You know,
just guy this head has said have some connections or whatever the
case may be. I will have to cover up my flaws. To do what, instead
of bettering myself working on myself developing myself. My
arrogance gets in the way I don't want to see anybody better than
me. I will actually actually go and criticize for the sake of
criticism. Why? Because my arrogance does not allow me to
actually accept that reality and work on myself. So I will cover
this up by pointing fingers and criticizing others.
Brothers and sisters.
Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam emphasized this in his prophetic
tradition, you will see Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam spoking
Allah, about this concept of Kibera. And even in the Quran,
Allah subhanaw taala described the Momineen the believers as those
who walk with humbleness Alladhina M Shula, Allah or the Hello now.
The walk with humbleness, and I don't want my message to be taken
in the wrong way.
Being humble does not mean that you're being weak.
Islam wants you to have a desire to have pride. Just because Islam
itself give you that pride.
Islam itself give me give you that pride. Being humble does not mean
that let people take advantage of you.
So this is the balance that we should all find. And this is what
Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam taught his companions. His
companion would say, Allah who adds in Islam, Allah subhanaw
taala dignified us with Islam. So you should be proud of who you
are, of course. But if you have this feeling that you are better
than someone else, just because you have extra money or because
you have that SUV or because you have that education, then Allah He
you should check yourself check your attention. Check your
intention at this point. So Allah in Egypt and I will fight I will
conclude my hobo this time in Egypt. I was in KFC and KFC in
Egypt is a fancy restaurant, you know, this is for the people that
they have money
and you will find this you know, before people before they go to
KFC, they have to dress up fancy and everything. You're going to
Kentucky today, right?
And you will find the family sitting there. They're all they're
all dressed well.
And then a mechanic or you know, a driver wherever the case may be
someone coming probably saved a lot of money to go to Kentucky to
eat that meal to share this meal with his family. So they're
walking in and they were all excited. They were all excited.
Finally were getting to share this meal and they're making noises and
whatnot. And Wallah you will find in people people's faces
impressions, how disgusted they are.
They think they're not worth enough to come to that place. This
is what? Arrogance. Arrogance. One more time. You think that you're
better than someone else is different than being humble and
have pride in your faith in your Eman brothers and sisters.
Allah subhanaw taala has created us from dirt
and we are going to return to dirt
we're all a timeline 60 years 70 years 80 years Minnehaha
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we're going will or going back to the same thing that we were
created from.
So there's absolutely no reason to think that you're higher than
someone else. May Allah subhanaw taala protect the soul. May Allah
subhanaw taala make us among those who were fighting against this
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