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THE TYPES OF PRIDE
The proud consider themselves big and powerful. There are several categories of these men of pride
The pride that touches the borders of infidelity when the proud person
belittles the prophets, the men of piety, the scholars and the abstemious.
Such proud persons build grand mansions for themselves, wear expensive raiment and ride on pedigree steeds to make a show of their wealth
to the people. They will have a fleet of slaves and servants hovereing
around them. All these things are the concomitants of the pride of the
person.
Imam Jafar e Sadiq (a.s) has said that the man of false pride is one who
has no knowledge of the truth and belittles and looks down upon the
men of truth.
One person asked the Imam (a.s), “Ya Hazrat! I live in a decent house,
eat good food, I use a horse for my traveling and a slave accompanies me
on my visits out. Are all these the signs of pride?”
The Imam (a.s) asked him, “Are you doing all this to show-off to the
people?” “Definitely not!” The man replied. The Imam (a.s) rejoined,
“Then it is not pride! Pride is that which makes one forget the truth and
makes him belittle the truthful ones. If a person has this pride to the extent of the size of a sesame seed, he will not be able to enter the precincts
of the Heaven!”
The Prophet of Allah (a.s) once passed through a place where lots of
people were gathered. He enquired why such a large assemblage of
people had gathered there. He was told that a mad person lived in the
neighborhood and people have come out of curiosity to see him. The
Prophet (a.s) said: He is neither mad nor deranged. The person is sick. In
fact, mad are those people who think that others are abnormal and make
a curiosity out of them. Making a jest of such sick persons, they are ridiculing God’s will!
497In another tradition the Prophet of Allah (a.s) says, “When my Ummat
walks in misplaced pride, and walks with a proud gait with the slaves
from Persia and Rome in attendance, then there will appear war and
fighting amongst them.”
Then the Prophet (a.s) added, “The fragrance of the Heaven will travel
to a distance equal to the length traveled in one thousand years, but
those who are disobedient to their parents, who deny others’ rights, who
are adulterers, who have their coat tails trailing behind them in pride,
who harm others with cunning, who brag about small mercies shown to
others and who are victims of avarice will not be able to smell.”
In another tradition the Prophet of Allah (a.s) says, “One who has constructed grand mansions more than necessary for his use, just to make
the show of his riches to others, Allah will convert these mansions as a
fiery ring and tie to the neck of the proud person. Then the person will
be consigned to the Hell with the fiery ring around his neck.”
The prophet then said, “A person who shows off wearing expensive
raiment, Allah will keep him in the lower echelons of the Hell in the
company of Qaroon. Qaroon was the first person who expressed pride
over his wealth and was interred into the land!”
A person who beats a beggar or considers him inferior, Allah will raise
him on the Day of Judgement in the size of an ant and consign him to the
Hellfire!
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THE CURE FOR PRIDE
The cure for the ailment of pride is that one always keeps in view his beginning, the inevitable end, his weaknesses, his failings, failures, illnesses and hardships faced during the lifetime.
Imam Mohammed Baqir (a.s) has said that he wondered at the person
born out of insignificant seed, destined to die and putrify in the end, behaves during the lifetime with a huge degree of pride!
Hazrat Ameer al Momineen (a.s) has wondered over the person who
started in the form of a drop and ends up with the final funeral bath! His
body throughout his life serves as a container for urine and feces. Even
then the person behaves with a high degree of pride. One who wishes to
banish the trait of pride from himself, he should eat his meals with his
servant, milk his goats with his own hands, sit in the company of beggars and abstain from the company of the affluent!