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CONDEMNATION OF PRIDE AND ARROGANCE

Pride and arrogance are destructive evils and, in fact, enmity to Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala. Pride is a great sin opposing the purpose for which Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala created His Creation and revealed His Book in order that complete obedience should be devoted to Him alone. Therefore, He forbade the entry into paradise for those who have the atom weight of pride in their hearts. There are many criticisms for the arrogant in the Holy Qur’an.

Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala states:

• I shall keep away from my verses those who show arrogance on the earth with no right to do so. Even if they were to see every sign, they would not believe in it; and if they see the Path of guidance, they do not take it as their way. That is because they have rejected Our signs, and have been neglectful of them... [Qur’an 7:146]

Those people who rage pride confronting Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala and His messengers wrongly and they do not submit because of pride and arrogance, they are deprived of Allah’s help and guidance. Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala recompenses the arrogant ones by turning them away from understanding His Book, His prophets, and His signs placed in the horizons and in one’s self. Such people become unreceptive to the Truth.

• In variably, Allah knows what they conceal and what they reveal. Surely he does not love the arrogant. [Qur’an 16:23]

It is enough to say about the arrogant that Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala does not love the arrogant, May Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala save us all.

• And do not turn your cheek away from people, and do not walk on the earth haughtily. Surely, Allah does not love every arrogant and boasting ones. [Qur’an 13:18]

Boasting is a problematic behaviour that universally evokes objections and considered a spiritual disease, Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala dislikes the one who brags about himself, the person who cannot be in the company of others without speaking about himself or drawing attention to what he has done.

• Those who quarrel in Allah’s verses without any authority having reached them. It is terribly hateful with Allah and with those who believe. That is how Allah stamps a seal on the entire heart of an arrogant tyrant. [Qur’an 40:35]

Those who do not bow down before truth out of pride, Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala sets a seal upon their hearts and they become totally unreceptive to the truth.

• Enter the gates of Hell to live in it forever. So, how evil is the abode of the arrogant. [Qur’an 40:76]

The abode of the arrogant has been mentioned in this verse, may Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala save us all.