Page 69 - Islam: The Religion of Ease

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Modesty brings about an easy and
comfortable life

Haughtiness and a feeling of superiority bring about the
greatest suffering and difficulty. Modesty, on the other hand,
brings a person comfort and peace. First of all, a haughty person
thinks that he owns all his qualities. For example, instead of
thinking that his brain has been given as a blessing by Allah and
thanking Allah, he boasts about his intelligence. By magnifying
this quality, he sees those around him as inferiors and belittles
them. As a result of this behavior, people around him do not like
him and see him as being repulsive. Some people may show him
respect because he can trample over them. But the respect
shown to an arrogant person is not real, sincere, and heartfelt,
but is rather behavior displayed to escape the damage of his ar-
rogance and conceitedness. Therefore, a haughty person cannot
have friends who are attached to him with real, sincere, and can-
did love. There will always be people around him who will
show fake respect and regard.
Another major agony a haughty person causes himself, is to
always try to appear to be without any imperfections or inade-
quacies. As in the example we mentioned above, one who is
conceited about his intelligence asserts that he is always the
most intelligent person. He can never admit to making any mis-
takes. When he makes a mistake, he tries to do whatever he can
so that others don't notice it; he even lies about it and in so doing
debases himself. However, human beings are extremely vulner-
able, full of deficiencies, and are being tested at every moment in
this worldly life. As a result, it is only natural that they have
many deficiencies and make many mistakes. To try to hide these
from other people is really meaningless and unnecessary.

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