Healing Remedies for Pride

📆 Date: 1403/02/06 – 16 Shawwal 1445
📌 Meshkat-e Noor session
👤 Lecture by Master Ali Saei
🗒 Some points discussed in the session:

☘ Treating arrogance with humility
🍀 Arrogance will bring a person down from any height.
🍀 Being afflicted with arrogance means turning away from worshipping God and worshipping oneself instead.
🍀 The structure of servitude to God must have a firm and solid foundation; arrogance weakens its roots.
☘ We should be wary of both our “hot” and “cold” arrogance. Hot arrogance is like a sword drawn from its sheath, while with cold arrogance the sword remains sheathed. Satan’s arrogance was of the cold kind.
☘ We should be wary of invisible, hidden arrogance.
☘ We should be wary of the growing “mount” of arrogance.
☘ We should be wary of compound arrogance: when arrogance mixes with other vices, its dangers multiply.
☘ We should be wary of blind arrogance, which can pollute the earth and all of time.
☘ We should be wary of arrogance joining forces with arrogance.
☘ Arrogance combined with technology
☘ Arrogance joined with wealth
☘ What happens when arrogance is accompanied by knowledge?
☘ We must continually measure our arrogance.
☘ We must struggle both against the arrogant person and against arrogance itself, and ask God to bring arrogance to its end. We must struggle both against Satan and against satanic conduct; both against the ignorant person and against ignorance.
☘ We must not nurture the arrogance of others.
☘ We should be wary of arrogance in the End Times, for then it will reach its utmost limit.
☘ The arrogance of the End Times will be extinguished by the humility of the End Times.
☘ Vanity born of arrogance!
☘ Ingratitude for blessings is itself a kind of arrogance.
☘ Being easily offended may be a sign of arrogance.
☘ Taking pride in oneself before oneself! Let us place God between ourselves and our egos.
☘ How fortunate is the one who attains spiritual solitude.
☘ Attaining spiritual solitude requires ten qualities.
🌼 Attaining knowledge of truth and falsehood
🌼 Learning to love poverty
🌼 Choosing hardship and piety
🌼 Treasuring solitude with God
🌼 Considering the consequences of one’s actions
🌼 Despite striving to the utmost, considering oneself deficient in worshipping God
🌼 Abandoning vanity
🌼 Increasing remembrance of God and dispelling heedlessness
☘ (Hadith) O Abu Dharr, blessed is the one who humbles himself before God without being diminished or lacking in anything, worships God in the most beautiful manner, and joins humility to his worship. He tames his ego without becoming wretched; gives away his wealth, which he has earned without sin; shows compassion to the lowly and the destitute; and mingles with the poor and the learned.
☘ Prayer is among the most beautiful expressions of humility before God.
☘ (Hadith) I accept the humility of the one who humbles himself before My majesty, not the one who exalts My creation; who keeps fear of Me close to his heart, spends his day in remembrance of Me, and restrains himself from his desires for My sake.
☘ We should keep the reins of our humility in our own hands.
☘ (Hadith) The believer has an attendant for humility. Every believer has two angels with him, and the two angels have a rein by which they hold him back. When a person raises his ego, they pull the rein, bringing it back down.
☘ (Hadith) The Prophet was fasting and was with a group of his companions. At the time of breaking the fast, a bowl of milk mixed with honey was brought to him. When he tasted it and realised that honey had been added, he said: “Whoever humbles himself for God, God will raise him; whoever is arrogant, God will lower him; whoever follows the middle way, God will make him wealthy; and whoever remembers God often, God will love him.” Sometimes we must turn away from the sweetness of honey so that humility may take root in our souls.
☘ (Hadith) A dark-skinned man with a pockmarked face entered the gathering. Whenever he sat beside someone, that person would get up. The Prophet welcomed him and lovingly seated him beside himself.