Two Ways To Kill Your Pride

One of the biggest disease of th heart is Al-Kibar, it is pride. And pride is when a person is proud of themself. Proud of their colour, proud of their height, proud of their money, proud of their family’s name, of thee language that they speak.

The Ulema tell us, for all of these desease of the heart there is a knowledge cure, and there is an action cure. The knowledge cure for pride is to reflect upon our relationship with Allah [swt] where did we come from?

 

Look back at the human being once we were a tiny clot of blood. Right? And now we stand up, people stand up and defy teir lord right? But where did they start off? You see very humble. And we come from a humble place, we get strong and then we get weaker and weaker and weaker, and we will return. No matter how rich you are, how famous you are. You have to leave this earth in a humble way, you will come out of this earth, so what are we proud about?

So the first thing is undestanding who we are. It’s interseting, because think about our lives. Ok especially a person who feels their physically health at any moment, you can drop dead on the ground. There are some people who are proffesional football players right? Super bowl, that they ready to play, gladiators. And then one day he walks on the field and he just drops dead. He just a heart attack and dies. You can drive in your vehicle and hone in a minute. Even the richest  person on earth, even the heast of state, will fly in  the plane and suuddenly the plane crashes.

So none of us have really any control over our destinyyou see, so why are we proud? We should be thankful that Allah [swt] gave us live, we should be thankful for the things that we have.

The part of the cure is the action sure. And the action sure here. Comes in physically, if we cann’t control our pride than we need to do things that humble us. Do hard physical labor. You will see the Prophet [saw] on the day of the Khandaq, when they were  digging the trench, when the Ahzab was about to attack them.he was carrying the bricks himself. Doing hard labor, taking the same as  everybody takes. A simple life, it is reported Abdullah ibn Mas’ud [ra] came into the house of the Propher [saw] and Ibn Mas’ud was considered to be probably the closest to Rasool Allah [saw] in the way he looked in the way he acted, the closest one. And he came inside of the house and he saw the Prophet [saw] and he saw the mark on his back and he said can we not give you a nice cushion or something? Can we do something for you? And He said no, because we are never forget that you’re a traveler. We are travelers, we are here today and gone tomorrow. Right so never make this, this is not our paradise.

So the humality, this is the Prophet [saw] this is the best of creation, the leader of the prophets. So he give us the example of humality. A group of brothers told me  at one point they were looking for a great scholar of hadith, he was living in India. And they went to the house and, they sat down and  elderly man came out and gave them water and hey washed their hands. Then the elderly man came and gave them food. And they ate their food, then they said ok where is the syeikh? 10 minutes later, the same elderly man came back and he said, I’m the Syaikh. And he sat down and he began to teach they were amazed. At his knowledge, but you see what he did? He killed his pride. He kill his pride, he has knowledge an ocean of knowledge over them. But he served them like a slave. So he killed the pride within himself.

So part of this issue of al Kibr [pride] part of it is, that we need to take action we need to take action against this. Ourthanks to who amazing reminder, Abdullah hakim Quick. May Allah Glorified and exalted be He grant that to us. Ameen.