The second strain involves our feeling of superiority with respect to other
people. Islam’s teaching is that one should never consider oneself greater than
other people, because that Judgment will come from Allah, and Allah alone, on
the Day of Judgment. None of us knows what our end will be, whether we will end
up being a winner or loser over there. The person who appears to be nobody here
may end up with eternal bliss because of his goodness that only Allah knew. The
person who is a big shot here may end up among the sinners who will be punished
there, because of his evil that only Allah knew. How foolish, it is then to
congratulate ourselves over our fleeting "superiority".
What if a person does have edge over another person in measurable worldly terms? How then can he not consider himself superior than the other person in that respect? The point is sometimes made in half jest: it is difficult to be humble when you are so great. Islam does not ask us to reject reality and imagine we don’t have what we really do. Rather it asks us to take a deeper look at the reality and not be misled by a superficial perception of it. And the simple reality that escapes many is that our health, wealth, talents, and power are not of our own creation. God gave those to us as a test and He can take them back whenever He wills. Those who are conscious of this reality, their blessings will produce gratitude in them; those who are blind to it will develop pride and arrogance.
on arrogance
Also one of Allah's names is Mutakkabir
Al-Mutakabbir - The Supreme
Arabic:
kabara - to exceed in age, be older, to be or become great, big, large
kibr - bigness, largeness, magnitude, greatness, eminence, grandeur, significance, importance, pride, haughtiness, arrogance (one of the major sins in Al-Islam).
kabir - great, big, large, sizeable, formidable, powerful, influential, eminent
akbar - greater, bigger, larger, older
takbir - enlargement, increase, exaggeration, praise, laudation, extolment ( to shout Allahu Akbar!)
Shaykh Tosun:
What if a person does have edge over another person in measurable worldly terms? How then can he not consider himself superior than the other person in that respect? The point is sometimes made in half jest: it is difficult to be humble when you are so great. Islam does not ask us to reject reality and imagine we don’t have what we really do. Rather it asks us to take a deeper look at the reality and not be misled by a superficial perception of it. And the simple reality that escapes many is that our health, wealth, talents, and power are not of our own creation. God gave those to us as a test and He can take them back whenever He wills. Those who are conscious of this reality, their blessings will produce gratitude in them; those who are blind to it will develop pride and arrogance.
on arrogance
Also one of Allah's names is Mutakkabir
Al-Mutakabbir - The Supreme
Arabic:
kabara - to exceed in age, be older, to be or become great, big, large
kibr - bigness, largeness, magnitude, greatness, eminence, grandeur, significance, importance, pride, haughtiness, arrogance (one of the major sins in Al-Islam).
kabir - great, big, large, sizeable, formidable, powerful, influential, eminent
akbar - greater, bigger, larger, older
takbir - enlargement, increase, exaggeration, praise, laudation, extolment ( to shout Allahu Akbar!)
Shaykh Tosun:
- He is the greatest and shows greatness in everything
- No creature has the right to assume this name.
- The first to become arrogant and claim greatness was Iblis/Shaytan/Satan
- People who follow Shaytan believe the power, intelligence, knowledge, etc lent to them by Allah is theirs and become proud
- Man's beginning is small (a fertilized egg in his mother's womb) and his end is limp cold corpse that turns into dust.
- Allah will humiliate the proud man
- hadith qudsi: "Pride is my cloak and greatness is my robe. And anyone who competes with me in respect of either, I will cast into the Fire."
- "The ones who wish to feel the divine attribute of al-Mutakabbir will find it only when they work hard to try to achieve the highest level of their potential, while never boasting of or even revealing their greatness.
- "Abd al-Mutakabbir is he who is shown his smallness and greatness of Allah. His egotism and pride are effaced and replaced by the greatness of Allah reflected in him. He is safe from being belittled and bows to none other than the Truth."
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