Arrogance: The Root of all Problems - Sayed Saleh Qazwini

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[1:01]Surah number thirty-one in the Quran.

[1:08]is known as a wise person who Allah subhanahu WA Ta'ala has

[1:13]given the heck and the wisdom.

[1:17]and Allah subhanahu WA Ta'ala discusses some of the admonishing that.

[1:25]the wise man he gives his own son.

[1:31]So look.

[1:30]Is speaking to her son and the Hadith says that was not

[1:37]a prophet Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala gave him the option if he

[1:40]wants to be a prophet or not, and he chose not to

[1:46]be a prophet because being a prophet has responsibilities has duties and

[1:50]Allah did not force him to become a prophet Allah did not

[1:53]make him become a prophet so he chose to not take the

[1:58]role of Prophet hood, but he receives the and the praise.

[2:03]And the hema of someone who is a prophet so Allah subhanahu

[2:08]WA Ta'ala describes in the Quran some of the diminish some of

[2:11]the wisdoms, Allah says.

[2:23]We gave the wisdom what does wisdom mean here?

[3:36]You don't find it you don't find the parents admonishing their sons

[3:42]admonishing their children the way they're supposed to today some parents, they

[3:46]say no.

[3:47]why should I tell my son Ahmad?

[3:49]Why should I tell my son to pray?

[3:51]Why should I tell my son to do this and that they

[3:53]don't want to because it's convenient for them to just let their

[3:58]children do whatever they want and you also have some of the

[4:02]sons and daughters that when sometimes their parents they come to them

[4:08]and they tell them.

[4:08]This is wrong, You have to do this in this way you

[4:12]have to do that in that way they don't accept the admonish

[4:16]so from both sides you find that there's you find that there's

[4:20]shortcoming the parents.

[4:20]they're not admonishing because the parents are not even in the lives

[4:24]of their children.

[4:26]They don't even know what's going on with their sons or daughters

[4:28]and their children.

[4:32]the teenagers or those who are the sons and the daughters they

[4:36]refuse to accept the they refuse to accept the admonish Allah.

[4:40]Shows us the role of the parent and especially the role of

[4:45]the father here.

[4:47]is the father and the parent has to always give more of

[4:51]a some people they say.

[4:52]I'm a good father.

[4:53]I'm a good mother because I bought my I bought my son

[4:56]$100 shoes.

[4:57]I put them in the best school I paid for this I

[5:00]paid for their for this school here.

[5:04]they their tuition.

[5:05]Yes, that is a sign of being a good parent but being

[5:10]a good parent is the parent who is vigilant a parent who's

[5:13]careful about the future of.

[5:16]Their children and we're not only talking about near future the future

[5:22]in this dunya we're talking about future of the.

[5:25]Can you make sure that the day you leave this life the

[5:29]day that you die that you have passed on the faith to

[5:32]your children that your children know their prayer know their know their

[5:36]Islam and their quran.

[5:37]some parents they don't can't.

[5:39]They can't guarantee that so here he gives advice to his son,

[5:46]he tells.

[5:54]Oh, my dear son Don't associate a partner with God because that

[5:59]is the greatest act of volume.

[6:01]That is the greatest act of oppression.

[6:05]Is when you do not give God his rights, God is the

[6:10]one who created you God is the one who gave you everything

[6:14]you have, but you go and worship someone else's.

[6:16]and then Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala moves on to talk about the

[6:23]parents.

[7:39]Having this disease, if someone has this disease, that is the cause

[7:46]and the root of all problems in life, what is that?

[7:51]that is?

[7:56]arrogance arrogance and pride?

[7:58]Islam stands against arrogance and in fact someone who's.

[8:04]someone who's great.

[8:06]What is it?

[8:08]What does this person think this person thinks they are greater than

[8:12]anyone else greater than taking advice?

[8:13]you come in.

[8:15]you want to give this person advice they don't listen you come

[8:17]and you want to tell this person.

[8:20]This is wrong.

[8:20]They don't listen.

[8:21]They're not humble.

[8:22]They think they're bigger than everyone, but this is this is a

[8:28]problem.

[8:25]Why because the Who who is the one who's the Kabir?

[9:02]Will begin to live a miserable life well, they were what they

[9:07]will destroy their own life because sometimes you see someone doing something

[9:13]wrong, you come and you tell this person but there are people

[9:16]they come and they say thank you for teaching me.

[9:18]Thank you you for telling me.

[9:20]thank you for guiding me.

[9:21]Thank you for admonishing me.

[9:23]This is good a good habit to have but then there's other

[9:27]people anyone who comes and tells them this is what you're doing

[9:31]wrong.

[9:32]This is immoral this goes against.

[9:33]This goes against common sense this goes against teachings and principles and

[9:39]values, but they say no my choice.

[9:42]my life.

[9:43]I make my own decisions in life.

[9:44]This is.

[9:45]this is arrogance and pride.

[9:48]You know who was the first who committed the sin.

[9:56]a Bliss Shay Shay was a worshiper shayan used to I used

[10:00]to worship he was from He was a gin who had entered

[10:05]himself from amongst the Angels so Allah.

[10:07]When he created Adam, he tells them.

[10:19]when I create him.

[10:22]bow and do to him now this we don't do to people

[10:26]we do to Allah.

[10:30]This was a SU to God but Allah tells them do it

[10:35]where Ibrahim is where where Adam is your.

[10:40]Adam the first creation.

[11:11]Person now this is something that.

[11:15]happened before and it still happens today today you find the person

[11:21]who's white.

[11:21]they say I'm better than the one who's black the person who's

[11:25]lighter skin.

[11:26]They say I'm better than the one who's darker skinned the one

[11:30]who has this passport, They say I'm better than the one who

[11:34]has that passport the one who is from one religion they come

[11:37]and they say I'm better than the one who's from the other.

[11:40]Right now this whole issue of Jerusalem and Palestine.

[11:44]why because one group of people they come and they say we

[11:48]are God's chosen people.

[11:50]We are chosen by God There's no other foundation.

[11:52]nothing else that comes and says you belong in this land.

[11:56]in fact, even scientifically they come.

[11:59]and they say that we are the oldest people in this land.

[12:03]No there were people before you before.

[12:05]that lived in land of Jerusalem before you do they come and.

[12:11]We were here first, No why don't you make it a land

[12:14]that everyone lives in peace with one another everyone lives in harmony

[12:17]with one another.

[12:19]Why is it that one group of people has to live in

[12:22]peace while the other people they're living under a apartheid and they

[12:28]are suffering and they're living as second or third or fourth class

[12:30]citizens.

[12:31]Why?

[12:32]it all goes back to it all goes back to arrogance it

[12:36]all goes back to pride when one group of people they see

[12:40]that they are God's chosen people in Islam, we don't have.

[12:45]In Islam, and all the best in the eyes of God is

[12:50]the one who has the most piety the one who has the

[12:55]most faith the one who has the most.

[12:58]that is the best person in the eyes of Allah.

[13:00]WA ta'ala but people who refuse to live with this rule this

[13:05]rule of Allah Subhanahu WA ta'ala this rule of equality and equity

[13:12]Then they go and they resort to arrogance and pride and that

[13:13]leads to problems that leads to war that leads to that leads

[13:18]to.

[13:19]That leads to economic instability where one group of people they are

[13:25]wealthy one group of people.

[13:27]they're comfortable one group of people.

[13:29]they're healthy, they have access to all of the world's resources and

[13:33]another group they have nothing.

[13:35]They have nothing is this fair.

[13:39]This is not fair but the ones who have arrogance and pride.

[13:43]they say no I deserve to live comfortable and even if it's

[13:48]at the expense of other people.

[13:49]this is.

[13:51]This is something that the religion of Islam stands against and the

[13:57]root of this problem.

[13:57]Is.

[13:58]the root of this problem?

[14:01]The roots of greed?

[14:02]Why are some people greedy and stingy and they like to just

[14:06]hold on for themselves.

[14:10]Greed is a side effect of.

[14:13]the original problem is arrogance when you regard yourself better than anyone

[14:17]else Racism racism is a side effect of arrogance.

[14:20]racism is a problem.

[14:23]It's a disease, the roots of is arrogance.

[14:26]Allah to Allah someone who's someone who breaks the boundaries of Allah.

[14:33]This is a problem, but the roots of it is arrogance why

[14:39]because you say, God tells me what to do?

[14:41]Yeah, but I tell myself what to do.

[14:43]I don't need God to tell me what to do why should

[14:45]I live?

[14:46]according to God's rules?

[14:48]Let me live with my own rule people.

[14:53]who.

[14:57]therefore, I have the right to take something that.

[15:02]There's and I take it for myself so here.

[15:05]He is teaching his son.

[15:10]He's telling his son.

[15:14]he says.

[15:21]And then he tells him in verse eighteen.

[16:12]Humble yourself.

[16:14]Allah says so for some people, especially, for example for your parents.

[16:22]lower yourself, humble yourself.

[16:28]don't raise your face raise your cheeks to people.

[16:35]and do not walk in the.

[17:47]I'm just having that in my mind, this is my attitude and.

[17:52]is when that feeling is reflected into action.

[17:58]That's that's when you come and you say you know I did

[18:01]this.

[18:02]I achieved this.

[18:02]I gave this much donation.

[18:03]I prayed this much.

[18:06]I achieved this.

[18:06]I'm better than this.

[18:07]I'm that's when you start talking about it and typically when you

[18:11]have a feeling in your heart, you start displaying it in your

[18:14]actions in your tongue in your words in your hands in your

[18:18]eyes in your gestures, you start displaying it to other people.

[18:22]Allah Subhanahu, WA, Ta'ala, says Allah does not like the one who

[18:31]is mortal and and then he tells him.

[18:42]and lower lower.

[18:48]the way you walk.

[18:49]you know an arrogant person you you you could tell that this

[18:53]person's arrogant just by the way they walk some people when they're

[18:55]arrogant.

[18:55]They're walking and they have their head up and they're very proud

[19:00]they don't care about anyone around them, Allah says.

[19:03]No.

[19:04]no no when you walk be humble, even when you walk, this

[19:09]is the walk of the prophets.

[19:11]This is the walk of the Ims.

[19:15]was the greatest.

[19:18]person to set foot on this earth.

[19:21]was humble Rasulullah would look down Rasulullah would go to the the

[19:24]lowest of.

[19:26]People who are poor people who didn't have anything they didn't feel

[19:31]that was looking down at them.

[19:33]They felt that was respecting them.

[19:35]He would go and sit with them He would go and be

[19:38]with them.

[19:40]Same with Amir a have never thought same with all of the

[19:44]Ims but you find some people when they have money when they

[19:47]have power, they don't even look at the poor people anymore.

[19:50]They don't even look at the people who don't have name and

[19:55]power or anything.

[19:55]That's it.

[19:57]They're out of your league you.

[19:59]I saw there.

[19:59]there was a man, he says.

[20:01]I had a friend.

[20:04]He was with me and we were always together and this person

[20:07]He wasn't even doing so well, so sometimes I would help him

[20:11]out.

[20:10]then the fall of Saddam took place in Iraq and that man

[20:16]who was not doing so well he ended up becoming in the

[20:20]government and the government in Iraq he says.

[20:22]Now I call him He doesn't even answer me, he says.

[20:27]Who are you who are you now?

[20:29]He doesn't even know me anymore.

[20:30]why because he got some power because he got some money thinking

[20:35]that that power and that money is going to give him real

[20:38]recognition.

[20:39]It's nothing you have a little bit of money in this life

[20:42]at the end of the day you both the rich and the

[20:45]poor are taken to a hole in the ground the grave and

[20:49]the ground, the one who has power or the one who doesn't

[20:52]have power.

[20:52]They're both taken to a grave and and grave does not discriminate.

[20:55]The grave is the same for everyone.

[20:58]The is the same for everyone.

[21:00]It's all.

[21:01]But some people because they have a little bit they start walking

[21:06]with pride so Allah says in the Quran.

[21:12]and lower your voice as well.

[21:21]and the worst of voices is the voice of the or the

[21:26]voice of the donkey and here this is not an insult to

[21:30]the donkey.

[21:32]This is an insult.

[21:32]Who who says certain things that they don't know what they're saying

[21:37]some people they just have to see people talking and they just

[21:39]have to say something they just have to talk They just have

[21:43]to speak they have to yell.

[21:45]They think that with yelling, then they're going to be right The

[21:47]loudest person in the room is you know is the one who

[21:53]wins the argument.

[21:53]but that's not the that's not the you know the key to

[21:59]success.

[22:00]so here.

[22:03]Wa Ta'ala is teaching us a lesson.

[22:04]through the advice of to his son.

[22:08]and this advice is a very important advice for all of us

[22:14]We have to humble ourselves we have take out the arrogance and

[22:20]the pride from our hearts.

[22:25]he says.

[22:32]if someone.

[24:08]Of weakness, according to the Hadith of Imam, a weakness that people

[24:14]have so we have to be very careful.

[24:17]We have to remove that weakness and we have to remove all

[24:21]of the all of the side effects of as we mentioned some

[24:26]of the side effects are racism prejudice sinning lying cheating looking down

[24:34]at other people.

[24:34]These are all side effects and results of.

[24:39]We ask Allah Subhanahu WA ta'ala to make us from those who

[24:46]purify their hearts and remove the arrogance and the pride from their

[24:50]hearts.

[24:53]Muhammad.

[24:56]Assalamu alaikum.

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