Pride
(Kibr) is the off-shoot of Ujb. When a person perceives a merit in
himself and is overcome by a sense of pleasure, exultation and
vanity, that state is called Ujb. Pride is the name of a psychic
state in which a person feels a sense of superiority and behaves
highhandedly with others.
The
sense of pride or “Takabbur” may be for good attributes or even
sinful behavior; for true faith or invalid faith, good qualities or
praiseworthy attributes, righteous or sinful deeds.
Some
of the Ayahs of the Glorious Qur'an are given below:
Surah
al-Baqarah Ayah 34, “When We told the angels to prostrate before
Adam, they all obeyed except Iblis, who abstained out of arrogance,
and so he became one of those who deny the truth.” Surah al-A'raf
Ayah 13, “The Lord ordered Shaytan to get out of the garden saying,
“This is no place for you to be proud. Get out of this place, for
you are worthless.”
Surah-al-Nahl
Ayah23, “Allah certainly knows whatever you conceal or reveal. He
does not love the proud ones.” Surah al-A'raf Ayah 146, “We will
deprive those who are wrongly proud in the land of the blessing of
revelations.” Surah Luqman Ayah 18,, “Do not show people that you
are an inferior person. Do not walk around puffed-up with pride.”
Surah al-Gha'fir Ayah 35 and Ayah 76, “Thus Allah cause to go
astray the skeptical , transgressing people, those who dispute the
revelations of Allah without having received clear authority. This
act greatly angers Allah and the believers. Thus Allah seals the
hearts of every arrogant oppressor.” “Enter the gates of Hell to
live there in forever How terrible is the dwelling of the arrogant
ones.” Surah al-Nisa Ayah 36, “Worship Allah and consider no one
equal to Him. Be kind to your parents, relatives, orphans, the
destitute, your near and distant neighbors, your companions,
wayfarers, and your slaves. Allah does not love the proud and
boastful ones.” Surah al-Ah'qaf Ayah 20, “On this day you will
suffer a humiliating torment for your unreasonably arrogant manners
on earth and for the evil deeds which you have committed.” Surah
al-Zumar Ayah 60, “On the Day of Judgment you will see the faces of
those who had invented falsehood against Allah blackened. Is not Hell
the dwelling of the arrogant ones.”
The
Infallible imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) said, “There is no person
who does not have a harness on his head, and an angel who attends to
it. Whenever he is proud, the angel says, 'Be humble, lest God should
disgrace you. Thus he is the greatest of human beings in his own
eyes, whereas in other people's eyes he is the smallest of creatures.
When he is humble and modest, God removes the harness from his head
and the angel says to him, 'Elevate yourself, as God Almighty is
elevating you'. Thus he is the smallest of persons in his own eyes,
while the most elevated and exalted in the eyes of others.”
(Al-Kafi volume 3 page 424)
He
(a.s.) further said, “Refrain from pride and self-glorification,
since pride is God Almighty's mantle, and one who contests with God
regarding His cloak, God will shatter him and disgrace him on the Day
of Resurrection.”
(Al-Kafi
volume 3 page 424)
Sources
used:
The
Glorious Qur'an, Al-Kafi by Muhammad Yaqoob Kulayni
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