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Lesson: 8 Pride and Its Kinds
Pride is man's
attitude of considering himself better than others and this attribute is one
of the calamities called egotism and self-centeredness. When man exposes or
expresses this feeling of imagining himself better than others it is called
or pride or haughtiness.
Sometimes this
pride makes one stand up against Truth and signs of God and HIS Messengers and
sometimes against Gods slaves other people and many a time it so happens that
if such a proud man does not try to improve his inner self he even turns into
a disbeliever.
Regarding the
first kind, verses so describe: Surely those who are too proud for my service
shall soon enter Hell abased.
2 Your God
is One God; so as for those who do not believe in the Hereafter, their hearts
are ignorant and they are proud. Truly Allah knows what they hide and what they
manifest; surely HE does not love the proud. And when it is said to them, what
is it that your Lord has revealed? They say: Stories of the ancients.
3-What;
whenever then an apostle came to you with that which your souls did not desire,
you were insolent so you called some liars some you slew. And they said: What! Shall we believe in two mortals like ourselves while their
people serve us? And if you obey a mortal like yourselves, then most surely you will be losers.
And they say: Why was not this Quran revealed to a man of importance in the
two towns? And when they said: O Allah! if this is the Truth from Thee, then rain upon
us stones from heaven or inflict us a painful punishment.
About this
verse, Allamah Tabarsi quotes Imam Sadiq (a.s.): After the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.)
appointed Ali (a.s.) to caliphate at Ghadir-e-Khumm and said: MAN KUNTU MAULAAHU
FA ALIYUN MAULAHU this matter spread everywhere. Noman bin Haaris Qahri who
was a hypocrite came to the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) and said: You asked us to
give witness to the oneness and ordered us to perform jihad, prayers, fasting,
zakat and we accepted all of it. But you did not remain contented at that and
made this boy he meant Ali bin Abi Talib (a.s.) you caliph and said: MAN KUNTU
.. Is this word from your calf or is it the command of Allah?
They Holy Prophet
(s.a.w.s.) replied: By Allah except whom there is not Deity, it is from GOD,
Noman returned saying: O Allah: if this is the truth from Thee, then rain upon
us stones from heaven. Soon thereafter a stone fell upon him and he was killed.
This Hadith
does not come into conflict with the aforesaid verse that was revealed before
Ghadir because the cause of its revelation was not the event of Noman but Noman
had, in his enmity, referred to extracted from the verse which was revealed
earlier. This is like our prayers wherein we quote the Holy Quran and say: RAB
BA NAA AA TINAA .
But regarding
the second kind: Showing pride against people slaves of God is also Haraam and,
in this regard, the Holy Quran quotes the words of Luqman like this:
And do not
turn your face away from people in contempt, nor go about in the land exulting
overmuch,; surely Allah does not love any self-conceited boaster.
2 - The Holy
Prophet (s.a.w.s.) says: One who has eve an atom size pride in his heart will
never enter Paradise. They asked: O Messenger of Allah: Some of us do desire
to wear good clothes and perform good jobs. The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) replied:
In fact, Allah is beautiful and HE likes beauty and nicety but what is pride
is to reject the truth and to consider others lower than ones self.
3- Imam Baqir
(a.s.) said: Pride and Greatness are the attributes of God and one who becomes
proud stands against the Divine attribute of Greatness.
4- Imam Baqir
(a.s.) said: Greatness is the cover cloth of God. Whoever takes any part therefrom
will be thrown into Hell by God.
5- Imam Baqir
and Sadiq (a.s.) have said: Anyone who has the minutest particle of pride in
his heart will not enter paradise.
6- Imam Sadiq
(a.s.) said: Proud people will, on the Day of Judgement, arrive in the field
of gathering in the from of ants and they will continue to be crushed under
feet until God concludes taking account of all.
7- The Holy
Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said: Tomorrow on the Day of Judgement most condemned people
will be the proud people.
Amirul Mo-mineen
(a.s.) said: I am astonished by the behaviour of the son of Adam. His beginning
was semen and his end will be a corpse and during his lifetime too he carries
dirt and yet becomes proud.
Though there
are many narrations in this regard we suffice with there few and hope that Almighty
God will all of us away from this and from all other evil attribute.
Now that we
have known the impermissibility of pride we restart with some other discussion
about Takabbur.
