Name: Muhammad Akbar

Registration # L1F21BSME0064
Department: Mechanical engineering
Section: MB
Session: 2021
Subject: Islamiyat
Submit to: Ms. Hifsa Shabbir

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL PUNJAB

 PRIDE AND VANITY

Introduction
Meaning of Pride and vanity:
To belief or consider oneself superior to others and to despise others
is mentioned as vanity or pride. Imam Ragheb Isfahani (may God have mercy on
him) writes: “Arrogance is that somebody considers himself superior to others”.
Pride In The Light Of Quran

Here are few verses from the Quran that reminds us of the risks of pride and arrogance, with inside the
hopes that we can also additionally all try to emerge as higher Muslims:
 “Those who disbelieve are in pride and dissension.”
(Surah: Saad, Verse:2)

 “And do not turn away from the people (with arrogance and conceit) and do not walk
arrogantly on the earth. Indeed, Allah does not like any selfish person”.
(Surah: Luqman, Verse:18)

 “And those who deny Our revelations and are arrogant towards them are the dwellers of
Hell, where they will abide forever”.
(Surah: A’raf, Verse:36)
 “He certainly does not like arrogant people.”
(Surah: Nahl, Verse:23)

 “The abode of the arrogant is very bad.”

(Surah: Nahl, Verse:29)

 “And when We said to the angels: Make obeisance to Adam, they made
obeisance, but Iblis (did it not). He refused and became arrogant, and he
became one of the unbelievers.”
(Surah: Baqra, Verse:34)
Pride In The Light Of Hadith

The following are some of the hadiths related to arrogance and pride which will surely show
that arrogance and pride is in fact only the glory of the One and Only God in Whose hand is
everything. Death and life and the honor and humiliation of everyone.
 The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever has arrogance
in his heart as much as a mustard seed will not enter Paradise."
(Muslim Sharif)

 The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Allaah will not speak
to three kinds of people on the Day of Resurrection (ie He will be very angry) nor will He
purify them. And there is a tradition that he will not see them. And for them is a painful
punishment. An old adulterer, another false king, the third arrogant poor (arrogant).”
(Mushkoot sharif)
 Imam Ja'far Sadiq (a.s.) narrates that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "One who
walks on earth proudly, the earth and all the creatures above and below it curse him."
(Iqbal al-A`amal, page 343)

 The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “If vanity were a man, it would not be a nice
one”.
(Nahj al Fasahah; Page 143)

 The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "One who does not recite Laa ilaaha illallaah is
proud and arrogant."
(Sawab al-A`amal, Page 31)

 The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “In the Day of Judgment, God will not attend
the one who collects his/her dress (from people) out of vanity”
.(Nahj al Fasahah; Page No. 148)
HISTORIES OR STORIES ABOUT PPRIDE

Many instances of arrogance and conceit are found in the Qur'an and Hadith,
however, here we will give only two examples:
 Story of Iblis
 Story of Al e pharaoh
 Story of Qarun
MAIN DISCUSSION

KINDS OFOFPRIDE
KINDS PRIDE

There are three kinds of pride:

 Against God;
 Against prophets and saints;
 Against fellowmen.
1.Against God:
 It's due to mere foolishness while a biped creatures considers himself as if Lord of the universe.
Namrud and Pharoan were such types, who disdained to be called God’s creatures on earth.
2. Against prophets and saints:
It's due to unwarranted self-worth when one considers obedience to any mortal being as lowering his
personal position. Such an individual either fails to reflect on the character of prophetship and thereby
feels pleased with himself and doesn't obey the prophet, or refuses to think about the claims of
prophetship as being derogatory to his elated self and thus pays no reference to the prophet.
3. Against fellowmen:
A proud man considers himself a complicated being and would adore to ascertain everyone humbled
before him. he's consequently quarrelling with God, trying to share with Him His characteristic
omnipotence. God is spoken of within the Hadith, as saying: Omnipotence is my mantle, he who
quarrels with me for it, him will I crush.
EFFECTS OF PRIDE

The worldly harms (disadvantages) of arrogance:

 The arrogant man roars in the eyes of the people.
 The arrogant one, in his opinion, seeks respect among the people by his
deeds, but in reality he gets nothing but humiliation.
 Arrogance compels man to live a life of loneliness, despicable in the eyes
of people.
 Man by nature loves humble and humble man and hates arrogant man,
so arrogant man has no friend.
 Knowledge is light, Allah puts it in the heart of whom He wills and
arrogance is darkness, light and darkness can never come together in
one place.
 The heart of an arrogant person is like a hard rock and a flower never
blooms in hard rocks but in soft soil, so is the example of knowledge.
Religious harms (disadvantages) of arrogance:
 Arrogance is a religious loss, suffering from polytheism and disbelief and being
caught in eternal torment. The reality of arrogance is to object to God's
wisdom, to deny His divinity, and to challenge His greatness.
 Pride and arrogance are the adornment of Allah alone. Whoever wears the
cloak of arrogance and pride, challenges Allah in his greatness, and whoever
challenges Allah, he turns away from Allah's mercy.
 Allah Almighty said in Holy Quran: “He does not like arrogant people”.
 He said in another place in Holy Quran: “Those who are arrogant on earth
without truth, I will not show them the signs of My mercy”.
The cure for arrogance:
Arrogance can be treated in two ways (1) scientific, intellectual method. (2) practical
method.
 First: Recognition of God's greatness. One reason for arrogance is neglect of God's
greatness. If man thinks about the greatness and majesty of the Lord of the worlds
and acquires his identity, then he cannot easily fall prey to such humiliation as
arrogance. Man should think about his weakness, how he was made and who
created him because this also removes pride from man. Hazrat Ali (A.S) said: “What
an act of arrogance and pride to the children of Adam! Its beginning is sperm and its
end is dead. It cannot get sustenance on its own, nor can it remove death from itself.
The remembrance of death also removes man from arrogance and makes him humble.
 Second: Humility is the practical cure for arrogance and all such diseases. Sofia
said: “Fight arrogance through humility”.
Opinion and conclusion:
All the verses of Holy Quran, Hadith and Quranic stories discussed above
teaches us that if Allah Almighty bestows wealth, beauty, intelligence or
something else to someone, then he should thanks for the blessings
bestowed by Allah and should never be proud because Allah, The Almighty
gives wealth, beauty, intelligence, etc when He wills and He takes away all
of them in an instant.
Since arrogance is displeasing to Allah and arrogance can neither succeed
a person in this world nor in the Hereafter, therefore we need to avoid
arrogance.