Psychology of The Arrogant - Sayed Mohammed Baqer Al-Qazwini

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[0:10]audhu billahi min ash-shaytaan-i'r rajeem bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahim I begin in the

[0:19]name of the Almighty God the compassionate the merciful the one who

[0:24]has created everything in utmost perfection and may the peace and blessings

[0:30]of the Almighty God be upon his pure and beloved messenger the

[0:38]peak of his creation the symbol of humanity the holy prophet muhammad

[0:45]sallallahu alayhe wa la ilaha illallah muhammadu ali muhammad and his immaculate

[0:52]progeny of the elevate peace be upon them especially the leader of

[0:56]our time the awaited saviour and imam al-mahdi adjure allahu ta'ala firaga

[1:02]may Allah make us amongst his sincere and dedicated servants and hastened

[1:09]his reappearance the Almighty God states in the Holy Quran SMIL Osman

[1:16]r-rahim voila Tim shieff Allah Redeemer ahan inna calendar canard Whelan tableau

[1:27]and jimana to Allah in this beautiful verse in the Holy Quran

[1:32]the Almighty God advises the arrogant he says do not walk and

[1:37]strut in arrogance don't think that you can split the earth or

[1:45]reach the heights of the mountains in an act of arrogance Sadat

[1:49]Allah al aliy al Azim illuminates your hearts and minds with a

[1:54]very loud Sunnah what it is my great honor and privilege and

[2:06]pleasure to be amongst you this wonderful evening as we continue the

[2:12]second half of the month of ramadhan this is my hometown and

[2:20]I truly feel that I am amongst my family here I look

[2:23]forward to this wonderful experience to learning from my dear brothers and

[2:28]sisters and to have a wonderful second half of Ramadan arrogance is

[2:39]the first act of sin that was committed in history the Almighty

[2:44]God speaks in the Holy Quran in the Bible in Holy Scriptures

[2:50]that Satan was the first to be arrogant the Quran tells us

[2:59]about the creation of Adam when the Quran speaks about these significant

[3:05]events they are lessons for us to reflect so we do not

[3:13]fall into the same trap when God created Adam he commanded the

[3:18]angels and Satan was mingling amongst them he had not revealed his

[3:24]true colors yet he acted pious and holy and he would apparently

[3:29]worship God would God created Adam he commanded the angels and Satan

[3:39]to prostrate to Adam to bow for Adam would be one of

[3:43]God's greatest creations as he would be a human being who would

[3:50]carry the intellect all of them prostrated except Satan he refused why

[3:57]did he refuse it's important to understand why he refused Imam Ali

[4:01]Allah's Salam the successor to the holy prophet sallallahu alayhi wa island

[4:05]he says learn from the experience of the devil from Satan from

[4:11]his act of arrogance one act arrogance caused him to enter a

[4:20]dark path for eternity one act of arrogance Satan after years of

[4:26]worshipping God of course he was showing off he thought now God

[4:30]will give him attention he will get the credit our narrations tell

[4:37]us that he prostrated to God 1 prostration lasted for 4000 years

[4:43]he wanted to impress the angels and even suggest to them that

[4:47]I am better than you 4000 years imagine so now he is

[4:50]expecting God to give him all the attention he's going to get

[4:56]the spotlight suddenly God did something that shocked him God creates a

[5:03]human a blob of clay imagine the Holy Scriptures tell us that

[5:07]God created the human being from clay and modern science has confirmed

[5:11]that clay is the birthplace of all life on Earth suddenly Satan

[5:20]sees that this blob of clay is getting all the attention in

[5:22]the universe and God is commanding the angels to prostrate to that

[5:26]he couldn't take that anymore no I will not prostrate to Adam

[5:31]I should get at the Avera attention not him and this is

[5:34]what caused him to deviate in my mind even he thought about

[5:39]his synopsis learned from this experience this act of arrogance arrogance destroys

[5:45]the human being it consumes the goodness in us in our discussion

[5:50]tonight I would like to shed some light on what arrogance is

[5:58]how to decipher self-confidence from arrogance because oftentimes people mix them up

[6:03]we value high self esteem and self confidence how does that fit

[6:12]with arrogance are they the same are they different then we'll also

[6:17]examine the traits of arrogant people so that we can keep away

[6:21]from these traits number 3 we'll also examine why is it that

[6:26]time's society rewards arrogant people sometimes they do get rewarded they do

[6:32]get their way they might get some power number four how do

[6:38]I deal with an arrogant person let's say I'm stuck with an

[6:41]arrogant friend coworker family member how do I deal with them how

[6:47]do I interact with them in a positive way and finally how

[6:50]do I protect myself from falling into the pit of arrogance so

[6:56]what is arrogance if we want to define arrogance very briefly arrogance

[7:03]is the stable belief that I am superior to other people it's

[7:10]this over exaggeration of self-importance arrogant people have the desire to overpower

[7:20]others and dominate them they have a belief that I am better

[7:25]than other people and they underestimate other people these are features of

[7:30]an arrogant person how do i distinguish arrogance from self-confidence what are

[7:39]the major differences between self-confidence and arrogance we value self-confidence in order

[7:46]to be successful I have to have confidence I need to feel

[7:52]confident and my potential in my capacity but sometimes there is that

[7:58]fine line between arrogance and self-confidence how do i decipher that fine

[8:04]line for one we find that people who have self-confidence they give

[8:14]value to the reality and facts they are self-confident but they have

[8:19]a sense of reality they are realistic they work with facts whereas

[8:24]arrogant people are highly self-opinionated they have their own worldview they are

[8:32]correct and everyone else is wrong that's one major difference between someone

[8:39]who's confident in a positive way and one was arrogant confident people

[8:45]who have positive high esteem they still see the world objectively they

[8:51]work with facts or as arrogant people they live in their own

[8:54]cocoon they see the world from their own lens that's one difference

[9:00]between them the second difference between people who have confidence and those

[9:06]who are arrogant you find that people who have strong self-confidence they

[9:11]are not bothered when others succeed and in fact when others succeed

[9:16]they give them credit because they feel confident about themselves it does

[9:21]not make them insecure if someone else succeeds but arrogance people have

[9:27]difficulty giving credit to others they want to bring down others and

[9:31]they can't handle see others seek successful so there's a major difference

[9:35]between one who is arrogant and one whose self-confidence you can be

[9:39]self-confident and you can be positively proud of the resources God has

[9:47]given you the capacity that he's endowed you with but it does

[9:50]not bother you and others succeed in fact you thank God when

[9:54]others succeed because you realize we are all the creation of God

[10:00]if that person is successful how did they achieve success they use

[10:05]the resources that God gave them right they should be happy this

[10:08]is not something that would bother them so these are two fundamental

[10:13]differences between someone who's arrogant and someone who has positive self-confidence now

[10:21]let's examine some traits of the arrogant people you will find that

[10:28]the first visible feature and trade amongst arrogant people is that they

[10:34]suffer from insecurity and that is why they are arrogant because they

[10:45]want to hide these feelings of insecurity these feelings of inferiority an

[10:52]imam sadiq alayhi salam won the Imams of the annal bait a

[10:57]descendant of the Holy Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and his

[11:00]family he has a beautiful statement in which he says matica bara

[11:04]I hadn't alive in Latin what Jeddah happiness said before modern psychology

[11:12]examined the psychology of an arrogant person this amazing leader fourteen centuries

[11:19]ago said every arrogant person that you will see in society the

[11:24]reason why they're arrogant is because they have this insecurity this humiliation

[11:31]this inferiority in them and they want to hide that through arrogance

[11:35]by projecting dominance and power but at their core they are very

[11:40]insecure they are very weak and instead of becoming arrogant they should

[11:47]address the core problem the reason why they feel insecure why is

[11:51]it that you feel insecure that is to be addressed but to

[11:54]hide that to guys that with arrogance that will not get you

[12:01]anywhere so it's a feeling of insecurity and arrogant people this is

[12:06]how they think let me reject others before they reject me they're

[12:09]always insecure they always have this fear of rejection let me put

[12:12]down others before they put me down let me step on others

[12:17]before they step on me this is their psychology that's one feature

[12:21]that we find amongst arrogant people the second feature that we find

[12:26]amongst the Arab the arrogant people is that when they examine their

[12:32]relationships with others whether it's a friend it's a business partner it's

[12:41]a family member it's a spouse they their priority is to win

[12:45]not to give value to the relationship any opportunity they get to

[12:51]win to score points to advance to personally benefit they will take

[12:58]that opportunity and oftentimes they will sacrifice their relationship with those who

[13:03]are very close to them they don't really value those relationships it's

[13:07]all about winning what's in it for me and that's why my

[13:11]dear brothers and sisters you will find that arrogant people don't have

[13:18]true friends they really don't they don't have true friends and we'll

[13:24]examine why some people befriend error arrogant people but they really don't

[13:29]have true friends because their friends know that this person doesn't really

[13:33]value this relationship they're trying to benefit from this relationship they're trying

[13:38]to flex their muscle and exercise their authority and power it's not

[13:42]a genuine relationship that's the second feature that we find amongst arrogant

[13:48]people the third one generally speaking arrogant people they crave for praise

[13:56]desperately they want other others to excessively praise them when someone talks

[14:01]about them and praises them that's their highlight they thrive on that

[14:06]and if others don't praise them they get disturbed they are bothered

[14:11]I've seen some arrogant people they're willing to sever ties with those

[14:15]who don't regularly praise them once one of the companions of the

[14:23]Prophet Muhammad Sal Allahu alayhi wa Allen his name was a Buddha

[14:26]maybe a few Knights you've heard about the biography of a Buddha

[14:30]he entered in the presence of an arrogant ruler the Calif oath

[14:37]man he was known for his arrogance so once he entered his

[14:41]presence and he saw a sycophant flattering him praising him and Othman

[14:47]was very happy because that's what rulers and tyrants do they surround

[14:53]themselves with sycophants and flatters who say to them what they'd like

[15:01]to hear so Abu Daoud got up he took a handful of

[15:02]dust he approached Othman imagine he was the king the leader the

[15:10]political leader he had all the power this genuine companion of the

[15:15]Prophet he took a handful of dust he came and he poured

[15:19]it on earth man's head he was in fury what are you

[15:22]doing abou that why do you disrespect me like that he's like

[15:26]I am following the instructions of the Prophet Muhammad because I heard

[15:31]him he said whenever you see a tyrant a dictator a ruler

[15:37]anyone they are constantly being praised by sycophants and they don't stop

[15:43]those sycophants go take the dust and pour it on their head

[15:46]he said I'm just obeying the instructions of my prophet now if

[15:49]man he claimed to rule in the name of the Prophet Muhammad

[15:54]but he had corrupted the message of the Prophet so Abu ZAR

[15:57]he stood up with so much courage and he gave him a

[16:02]good lesson that's one feature of arrogant people a fourth feature or

[16:08]trait of arrogant people we find that they are always the center

[16:15]of attention you know what their favourite subject is what is their

[16:21]favourite subject themselves that's their favourite subject and they will use every

[16:25]opportunity every gathering every discussion to turn it about themselves that's how

[16:31]you can identify an arrogant person and if the attention shifts to

[16:38]other people they don't give them their credit they get disturbed they

[16:43]find it boring they expect others for hours to listen to them

[16:48]praising themselves their activities but the minute that we talk about someone

[16:52]else in that gathering no you see them turned off they're not

[16:55]interested in the Gathering anymore that's a fourth feature of arrogant people

[17:00]a fifth feature or trait of arrogant people is that they find

[17:08]it very difficult to ask for forgiveness if they've wronged someone they

[17:12]have set something out of place it's extremely difficult for them to

[17:17]ask for forgiveness because they're arrogant they don't have that humbleness if

[17:22]you see someone my dear brothers and sisters coming to you and

[17:27]asking you to forgive them realize this individual is a great individual

[17:31]this individual has great character this individual is humble is a human

[17:36]being to be respected it's not a sign of weakness aslam and

[17:40]christianity and the world faiths they teach us that seeking forgiveness is

[17:45]not a sign of weakness it's a sign of strength in fact

[17:48]the one who has difficulty in asking for forgiveness is the weak

[17:52]one is the insecure one arrogant people don't like to ask for

[17:55]forgiveness because they think they're always right why should I ask for

[17:59]forgiveness I never violate anyone or if they know that they violated

[18:03]others they don't want to admit it and if you really want

[18:09]to test an arrogant person to see if this person is arrogant

[18:12]or not let's say you want to befriend this person and you're

[18:17]trying to know if this is a good friend good partner for

[18:20]you creatively challenge their worldview if they have a certain way of

[18:26]viewing the world challenge them test them see how they react okay

[18:32]if they just got a little bit ticked off but nothing unusual

[18:35]fine nobody likes to be challenged right except those who really are

[18:40]highly principled but most people don't like to be challenged it's kind

[18:44]of normal but if you see that this person gets frustrated they

[18:50]are enraged when you challenge them then you know you have a

[18:54]significant problem this person is arrogant arrogant people cannot accept the worldview

[19:00]of others the Almighty God and the Holy Quran even though God

[19:04]is the owner of the truth but let's see how he teaches

[19:09]the Prophet Muhammad Sal Allahu Allahu Allah to speak to the people

[19:13]the Prophet Muhammad told those people even the pagans the idol worshippers

[19:17]he told them let's come and have dialogue let's come and speak

[19:21]to one another either us or you are on the right path

[19:26]or the wrong path I could be right I could be wrong

[19:29]you could be right you could be wrong you see the humbleness

[19:31]in the Quran this is a verse in the Holy Quran in

[19:35]which God is saying either were right or you're right let's talk

[19:38]look at the Almighty Allah even though he's the owner of the

[19:41]truth and the pagans were worshipping idols and that's and they corrupted

[19:47]their belief system but the Koran teaches us don't be arrogant don't

[19:53]impose your worldview on others yes you believe that something is right

[19:58]have positive dialogue and what's really amazing about the Almighty God as

[20:03]we are told in the Holy Scriptures and the Holy Quran when

[20:12]Satan refused to obey the command of God what did God do

[20:17]did God say ok that's it I'm not talking to you anymore

[20:21]you're not worthy of even being talked to God has a dialogue

[20:26]with him can you imagine with his own enemy we find passages

[20:29]in the Quran telling us about the conversation Allah subhana WA Ta'ala

[20:33]had with the devil even his own enemy who showed arrogance God

[20:39]says I'll talk to you we can have dialogue we can still

[20:41]speak we can still negotiate and he negotiated with God he told

[20:47]him God keep me till the you know the day of judgment

[20:49]and grant me powers so I can whisper to the people to

[20:54]see if they really believe in you or not God says okay

[20:57]life is a test it's a trial I give you that power

[21:01]tell via fixed day not till the day of judgement till the

[21:05]fixed hour and we believe it's the reappearance of an imam in

[21:08]Manatee and prophet Jesus peace be upon them when they come back

[21:11]God will get rid of Satan and the devil in fact we

[21:17]have in our scriptures that prophet Jesus peace be upon him will

[21:21]be the one to slay the devil and kill Satan when he

[21:27]comes the second time with an imam and Mahalo to Ana firaga

[21:31]these are some pointing features of arrogant people now the question arises

[21:38]is if arrogance is so negative it's so bad it's so repulsive

[21:43]why do we find arrogant people in society having power sometimes they

[21:51]have a large following what explains that you could argue that you

[21:54]know some people in society who are successful politically in the business

[21:59]world but they are very arrogant how do we explain that there

[22:03]is truth to that arrogant people sometimes achieve success through certain mechanisms

[22:11]and means at their disposal psychologists have noted that there is an

[22:19]association between arrogance and anger arrogance people are usually angry and so

[22:25]they are intimidating they intimidate you and through this intimidation they dominate

[22:30]and seek power because a lot of people most people are not

[22:37]confrontational most people in society try to avoid confrontation if there is

[22:43]an arrogant person who is confrontational who is intimidating they try not

[22:48]to confront that arrogant person so they might compromise they might move

[22:53]out of his way and that's one way they achieve success they

[22:56]don't really earn it it's my intimidating others we always find this

[23:00]in companies for instance you have a co-worker you really work hard

[23:09]you deserve that upgrade that raise to go up the ladder in

[23:12]your company but you have another co-worker who's so arrogant who's always

[23:17]intimidating and confrontational and you just don't want headaches you don't want

[23:22]tension so you compromise and he gets his way now you could

[23:24]look at it from the outside and say ok see you got

[23:28]rewarded for your arrogance it pays off to be arrogant because you

[23:31]achieve more power but at what expense at the expense of putting

[23:35]others down their success is not genuine success genuine success is when

[23:43]I achieve something without putting others down when I really earn it

[23:48]but not through intimidation not through dominance it's through intimidation and dominance

[23:53]that a lot of arrogant people get their way and those people

[23:59]who follow them or those people who surround them really they are

[24:04]not surrounding them or following them because they have respect for them

[24:07]arrogant people are not respected but because they have power people are

[24:11]after that power or they are afraid of them they feel intimidated

[24:16]you don't want the wrath of an arrogant person to strike you

[24:21]so you act friendly with that person otherwise as we said arrogant

[24:25]people don't really have true friends people go after their power people

[24:30]go after their influence and they think they are loved by the

[24:36]people they are really successful but yes unfortunately we find that society

[24:39]sometimes rewards arrogant people look at the world today my dear brothers

[24:46]and sisters look at some Kings some presidents right from where I

[24:52]just came from very arrogant and you see a lot of em

[24:55]Americans rewarding the arrogance of Donald Trump right he acts very emir

[25:03]you know very arrogant he puts down other people and you see

[25:07]there are millions of people who actually fuel that because there is

[25:12]embedded racism and a lot of people there is embedded ignorant in

[25:15]order to be a great country and doesn't mean that you act

[25:22]arrogantly a great country is a humble country that carries the spirit

[25:26]of forgiveness that carries the spirit of dialogue respect you respect other

[25:32]nations you don't put down other nations but there are arrogant people

[25:36]ignorant people in society who reward that they will stand before you

[25:40]and they will cheer you but this is the test and the

[25:44]slash my dear brothers and sisters god does try us and part

[25:48]of the trial sometimes God might surround me with people or put

[25:53]me in environments that might encourage my arrogance but God is testing

[25:59]me will I be god-fearing will I be God conscience or I

[26:04]will succumb to my evil desires and act upon my arrogance so

[26:10]to an extent society unfortunately does reward arrogant people but it only

[26:15]does so on a short-term basis you can achieve success on a

[26:18]short term but in the long run once people realize the arrogance

[26:22]in this person in the end no one will stay with that

[26:25]person they will be abandoned even society will abandon them why they

[26:29]realize the damage that they have done now the question is how

[26:36]do we deal with arrogant people there is someone who's arrogant in

[26:42]my life creating problems for me how do I deal with them

[26:45]first of all my dear brothers and sisters if you suffer by

[26:51]living with an arrogant spouse a friend a family member you have

[26:55]to be very honest go to them and tell them that what

[27:00]they're saying what they're doing is hurting you a lot of times

[27:03]arrogant people don't realize that they're hurting others they've internalized their arrogance

[27:11]and superiority so much that they don't realize it I've seen many

[27:15]of them maybe they're not ill-intentioned they don't realize that they're hurting

[27:20]others you have to let them know be very frank and tell

[27:22]them what you're saying is really disturbing me it's hurting us have

[27:26]others approach that person and say it to them if enough people

[27:30]go to them and let them know that will get them to

[27:31]think that maybe I'm doing something wrong maybe I should change the

[27:36]way I address other people if I am demeaning them if I'm

[27:39]rude with them if I don't give them credit it is very

[27:44]helpful to talk about this but usually we keep it inside we

[27:46]bottle up and then it explodes go and talk to them respectfully

[27:50]let them know what that what that what they're saying is not

[27:54]OK ask them respectfully to change their habit their behavior their way

[27:59]of speech number two and this one's really effective sometimes when it

[28:05]comes to certain arrogant people we have to show them some compassion

[28:09]show them compassion you know why arrogant people as we said they

[28:14]have feelings of insecurity if you see that they have a good

[28:20]quality if you see that they have a good trait go to

[28:24]them with compassion admire them tell them look you have this good

[28:29]quality I admire it you can be really a wonderful human being

[28:32]stick to your good qualities you have a lot of good qualities

[28:38]build on those good qualities and you'll be much more successful but

[28:42]as for these negative qualities you need to address them so give

[28:46]them credit when it's due be objective in your criticism that will

[28:50]make them more likely to accept your criticism but if you go

[28:55]and just tell them off you're being very arrogant you attack them

[28:59]they will take it personal well they will never find the opportunity

[29:06]to genuinely work on their faults so give them credit if they

[29:09]really have good qualities let them know that they have these good

[29:12]qualities and let them know that if they change there are other

[29:15]qualities you will praise them you will encourage them once they see

[29:21]that encouragement hopefully that will put them on a better path because

[29:26]we believe that the human being can change his attitude even if

[29:31]I'm selfish even if I'm arrogant even if I deal with anger

[29:36]I need anger management we can change God has given the human

[29:41]being the capacity to change my dear brothers and sisters a booth

[29:46]out the companion of the Prophet was a great example in his

[29:53]youth he used to loot caravans according to certain historical traditions it

[29:58]was someone who was not good for society but he met the

[30:02]Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu Hollywood and through the Prophet he was transformed he

[30:05]became the most decent of the prophets companions you can change even

[30:09]after 40 years you can change it's difficult it requires a sacrifice

[30:16]but we can change arrogant people can learn to become humble but

[30:21]they need our encouragement having said that there is one interesting statement

[30:27]if there is someone who's arrogant and nothing works with them an

[30:35]interesting Arabic expression says being arrogant with the arrogant is an act

[30:42]of worship sometimes certain arrogant people the only way to stop them

[30:46]is not to give them their way stand up to them respectfully

[30:52]with confidence with strength stand up to them and let them know

[30:54]that this can no longer continue you once an imam ja'far as-sadiq

[31:01]re salaam the 6th imam of and elevate he was in the

[31:05]presence of the corrupt a Basset tyrant al-mansour at da1 et al

[31:10]monsoon was he proclaimed himself to be the Calif and the king

[31:16]in Masada and Salam was in his presence one day when a

[31:19]fly came and started to disturb al monsoon you know sometimes when

[31:25]that fly doesn't let go it keeps harassing you it keeps annoying

[31:30]you he really got annoyed he kept squatting in a way but

[31:37]it kept coming back so with frustration he asked an imam sadiq

[31:41]ali saddam why did god create the fly he was frustrated you

[31:47]know what day my man he said I've told him and him

[31:49]aside I've told him God created the fly to humiliate tyrants like

[31:55]you yes sometimes you have to confront them when you have an

[32:00]evil tyrant not caring for the rights of people acting so powerful

[32:05]you have to remind them look you're so weak who do you

[32:10]think you are yes one fly cannon no you look at your

[32:12]origin who are you as the Quran says in this verse and

[32:18]Sola tell Ezra don't walk arrogantly on earth who do you think

[32:27]you are so sometimes they must be confronted but in a positive

[32:30]way not in a way that leads to further attention but arrogant

[32:35]people need to understand that their arrogance will not be rewarded we

[32:41]will take a stance and we will stop it now my dear

[32:42]brothers and sisters how do we protect ourselves from falling into arrogance

[32:48]the first step to protecting ourselves from falling into arrogance is to

[32:54]realize that God has given you self-worth to be successful and to

[33:05]find that worth in your heart you don't need to put down

[33:07]other people God has given you that self-worth and appreciate the self-worth

[33:13]that the Almighty God has given you don't be obsessed with what

[33:19]others think about you if the entire world thinks of me positively

[33:22]because they see my outside appearance but God doesn't because he sees

[33:27]my intention what have I achieved what have I achieved when I

[33:30]depart this life when I placed in my grave on the day

[33:36]of judgment will that help me or is it my relationship with

[33:39]God and how God views me that's what will help me this

[33:44]is something that we have to be reminded of you do have

[33:47]self-worth you don't need to be arrogant in order to find that

[33:52]self-worth and think that you are an important person every human being

[33:56]created by God is an important person because God created you you

[34:00]are the creation of God take pride in being a servant of

[34:07]the Almighty God that's one way to block arrogance from overcoming us

[34:12]the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa ala and one very powerful statement

[34:17]he says the worst sin the greatest sin is an act of

[34:25]arrogance it's the path of the devil and the one who has

[34:27]arrogance and their hearts heaven is not a place for them heaven

[34:32]is a place for those people who are humble those people who

[34:35]have servitude and in fact the Prophet says something very striking the

[34:39]Prophet says the one who's arrogant is essentially trying to compete with

[34:46]God and Kimbrough radar Allah fana - narf is Allah - kibriya

[34:52]imagine this powerful statement when you act arrogant essentially you're trying to

[35:00]state that I am the dominant one and indirectly you are competing

[35:07]with God God is the dominant one God is the one who

[35:10]created us he's they're all powerful arrogant people are actually trying to

[35:14]compete with God and the Prophet Muhammad SAW Allah who are the

[35:20]other states the one who competes with God we know what their

[35:22]end is many people many tyrants have come in history who have

[35:27]tried to challenge God and compete with God but what was their

[35:34]end there was an Omega D Alif his name was and Walid

[35:38]Abby Nia's Eve it was very known for his corruption and unfortunately

[35:43]these caliphs ruined the history of Islam after the Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu

[35:47]on Iran this is why we hold on to the Imams of

[35:51]elevate because they came to purify religion from evil hands in every

[35:55]religion there are people who misuse religion for their personal agenda for

[36:00]political gains and welly Davinia's Eid was one of them he was

[36:07]so despotic and highly arrogant one day he opens the Koran and

[36:11]he reads this verse his eyes fall on this verse was Steph

[36:18]- ha ha a cool new Jabbar and I need and they

[36:19]sought the judgment of God another meaning of a stuffed house they

[36:26]opened because he opened the Quran and every arrogant person shall fail

[36:30]the Quran says every arrogant person shall fail he opened this verse

[36:35]he started mocking the Quran imagine he claims to be a Muslim

[36:38]caliph he started mocking the Quran and he said his famous lines

[36:45]of poetry - headed on eBay Jabbar in a needy Faja inada

[36:49]Jabbar on a knee do it imagine tarah back uyama - cipolla

[36:57]Arab moussaka nil Juanito Allah WA he started to address the Quran

[37:02]and he said you threatened me with a tyrant who's going to

[37:06]achieve failure well here I am I am a tyrant over here

[37:11]and I'm arrogant and then he took the Quran and he ripped

[37:16]it he tore it apart and he said would you come and

[37:18]meet your Lord on the day of judgement tell your Lord that

[37:23]and Walid is the one who tore you apart you see how

[37:25]they mocked the Quran you know what happened to his fate he

[37:31]was 37 years old when he did this less than one year

[37:37]later he was killed violently when he went on the Kaaba and

[37:41]Masjid al-haram he got drunk and he started committing acts of immorality

[37:46]people couldn't handle it anymore they revolted against him and they killed

[37:53]him he ruled for one year one year usually those dictators would

[37:57]come and rule for decades but he challenged God and this is

[38:02]what Allah Spano Tana did to him this was his end this

[38:05]was his fate this is something my dear brothers and sisters that

[38:09]we must remember now sometimes we might indirectly challenge God not everyone

[38:18]says this openly I'll share with you another story this happened decades

[38:23]ago in the city of Isfahan there was a wealthy businessman sometimes

[38:33]he would help the poor oftentimes you would reject them one day

[38:37]a poor man came to him he told him I have not

[38:41]eaten food for three days this story is about maybe 150 years

[38:44]ago and the previous century he said for three days I have

[38:49]not eaten food please give me you're very wealthy he said no

[38:52]get out of here this is not the time he said I

[38:55]beg you I'm telling you for three days I've not had food

[39:00]and you're loaded with wealth just give me just a little bit

[39:02]he kept rebuking him and rejecting him and insulting him finally the

[39:08]poor guy he got frustrated he told him look don't be so

[39:11]arrogant God gave you this wealth and if God wants to take

[39:15]your wealth he can take your wealth don't be so arrogant God

[39:18]gave you this wealth as they trust in your hand don't think

[39:24]you really own it you know oftentimes we think we really own

[39:26]our money our property who says you own your money on your

[39:30]property just a few days you use it and then God takes

[39:36]it from you that man became so enraged the businessman the the

[39:41]wealthy guy he got so enraged you know what he said to

[39:45]the poor man he told him look I've got so much money

[39:51]so much wealth God needs to sit and think for six months

[39:54]how to strip me away from my wealth imagine this act of

[40:01]arrogance now we don't say this obviously we believe in the Almighty

[40:04]God and we submit to him but sometimes my dear brothers and

[40:06]sisters in our hearts in certain trials of life we might have

[40:14]a similar attitude never challenge the Almighty God you know what happened

[40:19]to him he told him ok God needs six months we'll see

[40:25]you challenged God let's see the son of this businessman was friends

[40:28]with the son of the Shah of the king of Aswan in

[40:34]that region in Iran he would they were friends so that same

[40:37]day they had gone out on a hunting trip the son of

[40:43]the businessman was trying to shoot a deer when he accidentally shot

[40:47]the son of the king it was an accident it was not

[40:52]intentional they were hunting their news reaches the king that your eldest

[40:57]son the heir to the throne has been killed he was outraged

[41:03]who killed him the son of the top businessman in town the

[41:07]King got so frustrated he made a declaration all people of Isfahan

[41:15]all the property and the wealth and the farmlands of that businessman

[41:19]is for the nation go and take it he makes that declaration

[41:23]that same day people flock to his shops as businesses as farmlands

[41:28]the sheep the cattle the cow that he had was in ours

[41:32]he saw himself standing before his house having nothing except his clothes

[41:39]he was lucky they did not strip him from his clothes even

[41:42]his own house they took it it was a declaration by the

[41:46]king all of his properties for the nation go and loot it

[41:49]go and take it the poor man passed by he looked at

[41:56]him he told him Wow God really did need six months to

[41:58]take all of your wealth is that how you challenge Almighty God

[42:02]we learned from the great prophets of God my beloved brothers and

[42:06]sisters to be humble and humbleness means that we serves one reason

[42:15]why we Muslims have so much respect for prophet Jesus peace be

[42:18]upon him is because he was one of the most humble creations

[42:24]of God it's mentioned in our holy traditions that once he was

[42:31]about to wash the feet of his disciples they refused they said

[42:35]oh spirit of God this is inappropriate you wash our feet we

[42:40]should serve you he said no I am doing this so you

[42:44]learned from me and you be humble with people I am serving

[42:49]you now so that you have the habit of serving others this

[42:52]is why we have so much respect for prophet Jesus peace be

[42:56]upon him never in his life did he display an act of

[43:01]arrogance he was the most humble of the humble and he has

[43:03]a beautiful statement he says have you ever seen a tree or

[43:12]vegetation growing on the peaks of mountains where do you have the

[43:15]best produce in the country and the valleys right I'm not sure

[43:18]here in Canada but in the u.s.

[43:21]we have the biggest Valley in California it's a very long valley

[43:26]it's about 300 miles from north to south and maybe 60 70

[43:28]miles wide most of the food in the US and the vegetables

[43:33]are grown and the fruits are grown in the valley see the

[43:36]valley because it's because it's low-lying it's suitable for crops to grow

[43:41]prophet Jesus peace be upon him says don't you see the plants

[43:46]the most suitable place for them is a valley not the peaks

[43:49]of the mountain have you seen a farmer who goes on the

[43:52]peak of the mountain and he plants a tree there it doesn't

[43:54]grow there an arrogant person acts like he's the peak of the

[44:00]mountain but there's no goodness in him when you become humble and

[44:02]you have that spirit of serving other people serving your brothers and

[44:07]sisters in society then you allow for the wisdom of God to

[44:12]grow in your heart prophet Jesus peace be upon him teaches you

[44:15]want was them wisdom is very valuable it doesn't come for free

[44:18]you have to earn it you want wisdom it doesn't come through

[44:20]arrogance it comes through humbleness just as the plants grow in a

[44:29]valley wisdom grows in a heart that is humble God finds such

[44:32]a heart to be worthy and this is an amazing lesson that

[44:37]we learn from prophet Jesus peace be upon him and all prophets

[44:41]of God Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa ala was the symbol of

[44:45]humbleness with his people in fact some people would not recognize him

[44:53]when they would come to see him they thought he was a

[44:56]king he was ruling he was sitting on a throne on a

[45:00]chair having a fancy set up for himself they could not recognize

[45:03]him sometimes he would be with the destitute and the poor and

[45:08]they would have to ask about him where is this Muhammad who

[45:10]is he and then when they would point to the prophet sallallaahu

[45:14]anyone the person who would ask would be shocked he's like this

[45:19]is what I don't see that he stands out he looks like

[45:22]other people he's serving others just like anyone in society we thought

[45:25]that he would be like a king one day the Prophet Muhammad

[45:32]sallallaahu anyone was lying down and he would rest his head on

[45:35]the ground on the earth just like prophet Jesus would prophet Jesus

[45:39]has a beautiful statement he says my mode of transportation is my

[45:45]two legs I don't have something fancy it's my two legs and

[45:49]my pillow as the rocks of the earth my mattress is not

[45:57]something that's comfortable it's the earth I sleep on the ground my

[46:00]blanket is the Stars it's the sky he says I don't own

[46:05]anything I don't have anything but I am the richest person on

[46:08]earth he is the richest person on earth see that because he's

[46:14]not in need he's not enslaved to this materialism and that's why

[46:18]he's the richest of the rich Prophet Muhammad will also switch also

[46:21]sleep on the ground so one day a man came to see

[46:25]him and he saw the Prophet sleeping on the ground on rocks

[46:29]when the Prophet lifted his blessed cheek he saw that the rocks

[46:35]that course material had affected his cheek so he was shocked he

[46:39]says this is Mohammed this is the leader of his lab he's

[46:42]like I thought he would be like the Ceaser of Rome having

[46:46]a fancy place and ruling the Prophet Muhammad SAW Allah Allahu Allah

[46:50]tells him look God has honored me more than the king of

[46:56]Rome more than the Caesar what is this place this place is

[46:59]a temporary world we enter and then we leave it's just like

[47:05]you traveling in the desert you see a tree you go a

[47:08]few minutes under that tree you seek its shade and then you

[47:11]leave that's life why should I act arrogantly why should I be

[47:16]extravagant and therefore we see the great prophets of God achieved the

[47:21]highest levels of humbleness and through humbleness we can serve one another

[47:29]it is indeed a difficult task to get rid of this arrogance

[47:31]but remember that the first sin that was committed in history was

[47:35]an act of arrogance and it is the trial of the human

[47:41]being to protect himself from arrogance we ask the Almighty God to

[47:46]open our hearts and humble our hearts accepting the guidance of God

[47:52]requires humbleness in the heart we asked the Almighty God to illuminate

[47:55]our hearts to empower us to serve others serving others means serving

[48:04]the Almighty God for the Almighty God in one beautiful statement states

[48:08]that all the creation all people are my dependents the greatest amongst

[48:14]you and the eyes of God are those who help his dependents

[48:18]most those who serve humanity sallallahu aleyhi al Muhammad in Hualien playa

[48:25]being a pyrene [Music]

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