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| Diseases of the heart - kibr |
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| superFOB |
| 04/21/04 at 01:15:58 |
| [slm] From Hamza Yusuf's lectures on diseases of the heart (kibr):[list][*]Everyone has some degree of arrogance, few are truely humble.[*]Humility is not abasement, humility is a virtue in islam, abasement/humiliation is NOT.[*]Whosoever is arrogant and doesn't fight it, Allah abases him.[*]If you can "see" your humility, you are mutakabbir.[*]Its better to "fake" humility then be arrogant outright.[*]With enough repitition, your fake humility would give way to true humbleness.[*]People with knowledge of deen and students of deen are in most danger of succumbing to this disease.[/list]Btw, the learned scholar backs up almost every sentence with a quote from the awliya of yesteryears, incredible. |
| Re: Diseases of the heart - kibr |
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| buL-buL |
| 04/21/04 at 21:04:06 |
| [slm] What does 'mutakabbir' mean? |
| Re: Diseases of the heart - kibr |
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| al-ajnabia |
| 04/21/04 at 21:10:30 |
| [slm] mutakabbir: proud, imperious, high handed, haughty, supercilious, overweening. aka jacka**? sorry not in a good mood. |
| Re: Diseases of the heart - kibr |
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| nida |
| 04/21/04 at 22:59:22 |
| [quote author=superFOB link=board=library;num=1082524558;start=0#0 date=04/21/04 at 01:15:58][slm] People with knowledge of deen and students of deen are in most danger of succumbing to this disease.[/list] [/quote] i don't get it. why are people with knowledge about the deen more prone to having arrogance? |
| 04/21/04 at 23:00:42 |
| nida |
| Re: Diseases of the heart - kibr |
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| al-ajnabia |
| 04/21/04 at 23:25:33 |
| [slm] because they think they know everything and dont know how to say I dont know. If it all looks so clear cut, thats a clear indication you are too big for your britches. |
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| jannah |
| 04/21/04 at 23:44:05 |
| slm, Does anyone have a summary list of the diseases of the heart?? Maybe NuralLayl from the summaries she did awhile ago? Just interested in posting it somewhere to remind myself everyday... |
| Re: Diseases of the heart - kibr |
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| rkhan |
| 04/22/04 at 01:02:24 |
| [slm] [quote] because they think they know everything and dont know how to say I dont know. If it all looks so clear cut, thats a clear indication you are too big for your britches [/quote] Well said sister! What is Pride? Pride is of two kinds-- open and secret. Secret pride is the name of a feeling of superiority within oneself. This is called self conceit or Kibr. When this is expressed openly in the form of outward actions it is called Takabbur and the person who does it is called Mutakabbir. [Imaam Ghazali's Ihya-ulum-ad-deen (The Book of Destructive Evils)] Students of the deen are more prone to pride especially at the earlier "super Muslim" stages of their education because a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Peppering one's speech with obscure references or phrases which the average person doesn't understand doth not a scholar make...but unfortunately it's a trap students easily fall into...May Allaah save us all. I think a good way to avoid this is to remind oneself of the ppl who preceded us. Imaam Ibn al Qayyim al- Jawziyya sharpened his pencils while entertaining visitors, so that he could get right back to writing as soon as they left...Imaam Shaafi'ee divided a third of the night for study, a third for sleep and a third for worship.... Once Imaam Maalik was asked around 30 questions by a man and he replied "I don't know " to over 20 of them... The Qur'aan says: wa maa aatay'tuhum 'ilmun illaaa qaleela [and of knowledge we hv granted them (mankind) very little] May Allaah save us from saying things without knowledge and increase our 'ilm and 'eeman and our 'aamaal. |
| 04/24/04 at 01:34:39 |
| rkhan |
| Re: Diseases of the heart - kibr |
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| theOriginal |
| 04/22/04 at 01:28:03 |
| [slm] Super profound, subhanAllah. Is the order intentional, because I just had a brainstorm :D Wasalaam. |
| Re: Diseases of the heart - kibr |
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| superFOB |
| 04/22/04 at 02:44:32 |
| [slm] This is the order I remember from the lecture, but I guess only numbers 4, 5, & 6 are really in a kind of staged relationship. Similar reasoning goes for ikhlaas too, according to the shaykh. |
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