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SOCIAL EVIL - PRIDE
Pride (Kibr) is the off-shoot of Ujb. When a person perceives a merit in
himself and is overcome by a
sense of pleasure, exultation
and vanity, that state is called
Ujb. Pride
is the name of a psychic state
in which a person feels a sense
of superiority and behaves
highhandedly with others.
The sense of pride or “Takabbur” may be for good attributes or even
sinful behavior; for true faith
or invalid faith, good qualities
or praiseworthy attributes,
righteous or sinful deeds.
Some of the Ayahs of the Glorious Qur'an are given below:
Surah al-Baqarah Ayah 34, “When We told the
angels to prostrate before Adam,
they all obeyed except Iblis,
who abstained out of arrogance,
and so he became one of those
who deny the truth.” Surah al-A'raf
Ayah 13, “The Lord ordered
Shaytan to get out of the garden
saying, “This is no place for
you to be proud. Get out of this
place, for you are worthless.” Surah-al-Nahl Ayah23, “Allah certainly knows whatever you conceal or reveal. He does not love the proud ones.” Surah al-A'raf Ayah 146, “We will deprive those who are wrongly proud in the land of the blessing of revelations.” Surah Luqman Ayah 18,, “Do not show people that you are an inferior person. Do not walk around puffed-up with pride.” Surah al-Gha'fir Ayah 35 and Ayah 76, “Thus Allah cause to go astray the skeptical , transgressing people, those who dispute the revelations of Allah without having received clear authority. This act greatly angers Allah and the believers. Thus Allah seals the hearts of every arrogant oppressor.” “Enter the gates of Hell to live there in forever How terrible is the dwelling of the arrogant ones.” Surah al-Nisa Ayah 36, “Worship Allah and consider no one equal to Him. Be kind to your parents, relatives, orphans, the destitute, your near and distant neighbors, your companions, wayfarers, and your slaves.
Allah does not love the proud and boastful
ones.” Surah al-Ah'qaf Ayah 20,
“On this day you will suffer a
humiliating torment for your
unreasonably arrogant manners on
earth and for the evil deeds
which you have committed.” Surah
al-Zumar Ayah 60, “On the Day of
Judgment you will see the faces
of those who had invented
falsehood against Allah
blackened. Is not Hell the
dwelling of the arrogant ones.”
The Infallible imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.)
said, “There is no person who
does not have a harness on his
head, and an angel who attends
to it. Whenever he is proud, the
angel says, 'Be humble, lest God
should disgrace you. Thus he is
the greatest of human beings in
his own eyes, whereas in other
people's eyes he is the smallest
of creatures. When he is humble
and modest, God removes the
harness from his head and the
angel says to him, 'Elevate
yourself, as God Almighty is
elevating you'. Thus he is the
smallest of persons in his own
eyes, while the most elevated
and exalted in the eyes of
others.” (Al-Kafi volume 3 page
424)
He (a.s.) further said, “Refrain from pride and
self-glorification, since pride
is God Almighty's mantle, and
one who contests with God
regarding His cloak, God will
shatter him and disgrace him on
the Day of Resurrection.”
(Al-Kafi volume 3 page 424)
Sources used:
The Glorious Qur'an, Al-Kafi by Muhammad Yaqoob Kulayni |
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