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PRIDE
“O Abu Dharr! The maximum number of people who will go to the Hell
will be from those who are victims of pride!”
Someone asked, “Ya Hazrat! What is the way of protecting oneself
from becoming proud?” The Prophet (a.s) replied, “A person who wears
coarse cloth, rides on the long eared mules, milks his own goats and
shares his food with the poor and prefers to carry his own burden is free
from the trait of pride!” This means that humility protects one from becoming proud.
“O Abu Dharr! One who makes his robe trail behind him in pride, Allah will not cast the look of Blessing towards him on the Day of Reckoning!” One who draws the ends of his robe in his hands and walsk on the
street, and doesn’t walk like the proud, conceited Arabs, who repairs his
own footwear and bows his Head to Allah on the sands is free from the
trait of false pride!
Very soon the Prophet (a.s) said, “My Ummat will have people who
will be born in affluence. They will be pampered with delicious foods
and victuals. Flattering poets will sing paens in their praise. These will
be the bad ones among my Ummat!”
492Part 14
Masabeeh—The Lamps
493Chapter 83
CONDEMNING PRIDE
The Satan was the first to commit this sin when he refused to prostrate to
Adam expressing his pride that he was made of the superior fire and
Adam was made with the lowly soil.
Hazrat Ameer al Momineen (a.s) has said in his Sermon (Qutba e Qasaaa) after a thosand praises to Allah Who Has given great importance to
His Traits of Respect and Greatness. He has kept these traits only for
Himself. And made haram (taboo) for others creatures of His. Whosoever
from His creatures assumes these traits, he will be the accursed!
In the first instance Allah tested the angels. He said, “I am creating a
human with the lowly soil. When I put spirit in the creature, you must all
prostrate to him in respect!”
All the angels prostrated before Adam as commanded by Allah, barring the proud Satan. He said, “Adam is made of soil and you have
made me with the superior fire!. Therefore, I am superior to him!” By the
Creator of all beings! Satan became the leader of all the pride and conceited beings in the universe! He became the accursed of Allah forever
by this attitude! If Allah wished, he could create Adam with such a light
that even the angels would be put in a shade before him! For Allah doing
such a thing was very easy, but He wished to put the angels to test! If the
angels were awed by Adam’s noor (light) and prostrated, then it would
be the prostration under the influence of the light and, perhaps, not in
obedience to Allah’s Commandment.
Allah wanted to test the angels, and test them in such a way that the
obedient and the disobedient were clearly distinguished from each other.
Therefore, Iblees, who spent six thousand years in supplication to Allah,
was turned into Satan for his disobedience and turned away from the
Heaven. He was the first proud creature who misled Qabeel to act against
Allah’s Commandment and kill his momin brother Habeel only out of jealousy and pride.
494Therefore, one must abstain from pride. People should take a lesson
from those who are buried under heavy loads of soil. They were those
who were very proud and never considered anyone equal to them. If
pride was considered by Allah a desirable trait in humans,, He would
not have kept his Prophets (a.s) devoid of it. The Great Allah likes his
Abd e Zaleel (the lowly creature) to prostrate their foreheads on the dust
as a test of their Obedience.
Wealth and pelf are great evils and penury and piety the supreme
tests. Allah tests the proud people through these weak and insignificant
creatures.
Hazrat Moosa (a.s) and Hazrat Haroon (a.s) reached the court of the
Pharoh wearing coarse wollen raiment and carrying a staff. They told
Pharoh that if he wished to have peremanent respectability and desired
to rule for long, then he should embrace Islam. Hearing this Pharoh
laughed and told to his courtiers that the two mendicants who neither
had good dress nor pompous appearance, hold a beggar’s staff in th
hand, offer him eternal life and respectability! If they have so much
power, then why they are not rulers and kings? They even don’t wear
bracelets of gold!
It became evident from the talk of the Pharo that in his consideration
wealth, pelf and bracelets etc were signs of respectability and power. If
Allah has attached any importance to these things, he certainly would
have provided all these to His Prophets (a.s) But the Intention of Allah
was to test the proud, conceited rulers of the world through His Prophets (a.s) who were the paragons of simplicity and humility. If the prophets were rich and powerful, people would have respected them for their
outward pomp. But Allah wished to see who were his sincere creatures.
Similarly Allah built His House with ordinary stones and sand. It was
possible for Him to Order it to be made with gold, silver and precious
stones. That would perhaps have put the pride of the world to a shade!
But the Creator wanted people of all shades of power and pride to bow
down to His Humble Abode!
The philosophy of Salah too is the same. Proud and conceited persons
prostrate their foreheads on the dust in acknowledgement of the Greatness of Allah. Wealthy persons fast in the Holy month of Ramadhan to
earn the Goodwill of Allah!
They take out and distribute the Zakat thinking that Allah has gifted
them with wealth and it must be shared with the needy. Although the
House of Allah is in an isolated and desolate place, but since it is related
495with the great Creator, people have to respect the Black Stone (Hajr e
Aswad) in obedience to His Commands!