العُجبُ

SELF-ADMIRATION

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2– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Self-admiration shows up your faults.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 954]

3– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Self-admiration is foolishness.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 62]

4– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘An evil deed
[of yours] that upsets you is better in the sight of Allah than a good deed which you feel proud about.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 46]

5– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Beware of self-satisfaction lest it increases the cause for
[Allah’s] wrath against you.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 2642]

6– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The consequence of self-admiration is hatred
[of other people towards you].’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4606]

7– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Self-admiration is the opposite of proper conduct, and is the bane of the hearts.’
[Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 74]

8– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Self-admiration corrupts reason.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 726]

9– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Self-admiration prevents progress.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, no. 167]

10– Imam al-Baqir and Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Verily Allah, Blessed and most High, says, ‘Verily from among My servants is he who asks Me to enable him to perform an act of obedience to Me in order that he may procure My love, but I however, withhold that from him in order that he does not come to feel proud of that action of his.’
[al-Zuhd li al-Husayn b. Sa`aid, p. 68, no. 179]

11– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘He who is overtaken by self-admiration perishes.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 313, no. 2]

12– The Prophet (SAWA) said, describing the intelligent person, ‘He regards the little good that others do as being much and regards the abundance of good that he himself does as being little.’
[Mustadrak al-Wasail, v. 1, p. 132, no. 184]

13– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘Undervalue the abundant acts of obedience that you perform for Allah, in contempt of your lower self and in order to expose yourself to Allah’s pardon.’
[Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 285]

14– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Iblis
[Satan] – may Allah’s curse be on him – says to his troops, ‘If I can gain mastery over three things in man, I will no longer care how much good he does for it will not be accepted from him: if he overrates his good deeds, forgets his sins, and is overcome by self-admiration.’
[al-Khisal, p. 112, no. 86]

15– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘What is the matter with man that he is so given to self-admiration when his origin was but a putrid droplet, and his end is as a filthy corpse, and between these states he is but a vessel for excrement?!’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9666]

16– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘Block the path of self-admiration through self-knowledge.’
[Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 285]

17– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘If crossing the Sirat
[Bridge extended over Hell] is a reality, then wherefore the need for self-admiration?!’
[Amali al-Saduq, p. 16, no. 5]