Part 12

those who deal justly in the matters relating to their families and other affairs entrusted to them."1

When the Messenger of Allah sent Mu'adh (may Allah be pleased with him) to Yemen he said to him,

"Do not take the best of their articles as zakah. Fear the call of an oppressed person, because there is no

barrier between the complaint of an oppressed and Allah."2

"These are three people whom Allah will not talk to, look at, or exonerate on the Day of Judgement. He

mentioned among them the lying ruler."3

"You will be anxious to lead, and this will be a source of remorse to you on the day of Judgement."4

"By Allah, I will not appoint to a public office anybody who asks for it or expresses a longing for it." 5

"0 Ka'b Ibn 'Ajarah, may Allah give refuge to you from the leadership of the naives who will come after me

but they will not follow my guidance or tradition." 6

"He who asks to be appointed as the judge of Muslims, and then he judges justly, he will enter Paradise,

but if he judges unjustly he will go to Hell."7

'Umar said to Abu Dharr, "Tell me a hadith you have heard from Allah's Messenger." Abu Dharr said, "I

reported the Messenger of Allah to have said,

"On the Day of Judgement, the leader will be brought and then cast upon a bridge on fire. The bridge will

be shaken so violently that all his joints will be amputated. Then, if he was obedient to Allah, he will pass,

otherwise he will fall down in the Hell-Fire and only after fifty years he will reach the bottom." Upon

hearing that, 'Umar asked, "0 Abu Dharr, who asks for it?" he replied, "It is he who his nose for Allah and

placed his cheek on the earth.."8

'Amr Ibn Al-Muhajir said, 'Umar Ibn Abdel Aziz said to me "When you see me deviating from the

right, you should grip me and ask, 'O `Umar what are you doing?'

17) Arrogance, Pride, Conceit, Vanity And Haughtiness

{Moses said, "I have indeed called upon my Lord and your Lord (for protection) from every arrogant one

who believes not in the Day of Account.} (Ghafir: 27)

{Verily He loveth not the arrogant.} (An-Nahl: 23)

"Once a man was walking along in a new set of clothes, with a swagger to his step, pleased with himself,

Allah caused the earth to swallow him and he will keep sinking until the Last Day."1

"Tyrants and the arrogant will be raised on the last Day as grain strewn under feet that the people will

Arrogance, as early Muslims said, was the first fault against Allah.

{And behold, we said to the angels: bow down to Adam: and they bowed down: not so Iblis: he refused and

was haughty: he was of those who reject Faith} (AI-Baqarah: 34)

Therefore, Faith is of no avail if arrogance exists, as is Iblis.

The Messenger (pbuh) said, "Arrogance is belittling to admit the truth and considering

"Arrogance is refusing to acknowledge what is right and considering others to be inferior." 4

"No one with the slightest particle of arrogance in his heart will enter Paradise." 5

Allah, the Almighty, says in the Qudsi hadith,

{Allah loveth not any arrogant boaster.} (Luqman: 18)

"Pride is My garment and haughtiness My Mantle: whoever vies with Me for them I will throw into

Reported by AtTirmidhi and Ahmad

"A debate took place between heaven and hell. The latter said; in me shall enter tyrant and the arrogant

people: while heaven said, "In me shall enter the weak and the lowly." Allah decided the issue by saying,

You are heaven, My mercy, through you I shall have mercy on whomsoever 1 please; and you are hell, a

place of punishment, through you / shall chastise whomsoever / like. /t is incumbent upon Me to fill both of

{And swell not thy check (jor pride) at men. Nor walk in insolence through the earth for Allah loveth not

any arrogant boaster.} (Luqman: 18)

Salama Ibn Al-Akwa' recounted that a man was eating with his left hand in the presence of the Prophet

(pbuh). The Prophet told him,

"Eat with your right. " To which the man replied, "/ cannot." Though nothing stopped him but arrogance.

The Prophet said,' "May you not be able to. " And the man could never lift his right hand to his mouth

"Shall I tell you who the people of the Hell-Fire are. The cruel, the haughty and the arrogant."3

"There are three people whom Allah will not speak to, look at or exonerate on the Day of Judgement, and

who will have a painful torment: he who wears the hem of his garment low (out of pride), he who reminds

recipients of his charity to them and he who sells merchandise swearing that he paid more for it than he

"What comes down the anklebones of the caftan is in Hell."5

The wickedest arrogance is that of someone who exalts himself over people of his learning

and gloats to himself about his superiority. The knowledge of such person is of absolutely no

benefit to him. Whoever learns sacred knowledge for the sake of the next world is unsettled by

his learning, his heart is humbled and his ego lowered. Such a person lies in wait for his

selfishness and never gives it free rein. He constantly takes his ego to task and corrects it. Were

he to neglect it, it would diverge from the right path and destroy him. The person who seeks

knowledge to take pride in it or gain a position of leadership, looking disdainfully at other

Muslims, thinking them fools and making light to them all this is the most enormous arrogance

and no one with the slightest particle of arrogance in his heart will enter Paradise. There is no

power nor might save in Allah Most High, Most Glorious.

Reported by Ahmad and AI-Hakim and it is an authentic hadith

Reported by Muslim, An-Nisa'i and Ibn Majah

{Those who witness no falsehood and if they pass by futility, they pass by it with honorable (avoidance)}

{And shun the word that is false}

"Bearing false witness is mentioned twice as equal as associating others with Allah (in the Quran)"1

"On the Day of Judgement, the feet of the person who bore false witness will not stir from their place

before their owner is condemned to Hell."2

The author (may Allah have mercy on him) said that the one who bore false witness has committed

many major sins among which is:

(a) lying and false allegation. Allah the Most High says,

{Truly Allah guides not one who transgress and lies}.

"The believer is created familiar with everything except treachery and lying" 3

(b) He oppressed the one who bore witness against him as he appropriated his property, honor and soul.

(c) He oppressed the one who bore witness for him as he brought unlawful property to him and thus

made him entail the Hell-Fire."

"]f I decide in favor of a person who is not entitled to the thing, I do not allow him but a piece of fire".4

(i.e., the person receiving it will go to Hell.)

(d) He made what Allah forbids of property, blood and honor permissible.

Reported by Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah.

Reported by Ibn Majah and AI-Hakim.

Reported by A1-Al-Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Al-Nasa'i, and Ibn Majah.

"Shall I tell you of the worst major sins? Worshipping others with Allah, showing disrespect to parents,

giving a false statement and testifying to the truth of a falsehood. " And he kept repeating it until we were

telling ourselves (out of sympathy for him because of the strain of repeating it) "]f only he would be

{O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, sacrificing to stones and (divination by) arrows, is an

abomination, of Satan's handiwork: Eschew such (abomination) that ye may prosper. Satan's plan is (but)

to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the

remembrance of Allah, and from Prayer: will ye not then abstain?}

Thus, Allah the Exalted forbids wine and warns us of approaching it.

"A void wine, it is the mother of abomination. "1

Therefore, if anyone does not avoid it, he then disobeys Allah and His Messenger and thus entails

{But those who disobey Allah and His Messenger and transgress His limits will be admitted to a fire, to

abide therein: and they shall have a humiliating punishment.}

Ibn 'Abbas related that, "When the wine was forbidden, the companions (of the Prophet) met each other

and said, The wine was forbidden and became equal to polytheism (Shirk)." 2

'Abdullah Ibn 'Amr held that, "Wine is the worst of the major sins." 3

Undoubtedly, wine is the core of abominations. Moreover, he who drinks it was cursed in various hadiths.

"Every intoxicant is wine and every wine is unlawful. Whoever it in the world and dies addictive to it

without repentance, he will not drink it in the Hereafter."4

"Whoever drinks wine in this world it shall be forbidden for them in the next."5

"A drunkard is like a worshiper of an idol."6

"He who shows disrespect to his parents and the drunkard will not enter Paradise." 1

It is a part of a hadith reported by Ad-Darqutni, Al-Nasa'i and AI-Baihaqi.

Reported by AI-Hakim in AI-Mustadrak and it is an authentic hadith

Reported by AI-Hakim in 'Mustadrak' and it is an authentic hadith.

Reported by Muslim, Abu Dawud, AtTirmidhi and Ahmad.

Reported by Al-Bukhari, An-Nisa'i and AI-Baihaqi.

Reported by Ibn Majah, Ahmad and Al-Baihaqi.

"Three people, Allah will deprive them of Paradise; the drunkard, the one who shows disrespect to his

parents and the pimp who admits what his family do of abomination".2

Further, Allah does not accept the good deeds of a drunkard. Jabir Ibn ' Abdullah relates that the

"There are Three people from whom Allah does not accept their Prayer nor do their good deeds rise

up to heaven: the fleeing slave until he returns to his masters and surrends to them, the woman who annoys

her husband until he is pleased with her, and the drunkard until he becomes conscious" 3

The Arabic word Khamr is what befogs the mind in whatever form: soft, solid, edible or beverage.