Page 47 - Ever Thought About The Truth ?

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

One of the most important characteristics of a believer is his
avoidance of arrogance and haughtiness, in a different way of
saying, his avoidance of almost deifying himself. A believer who
genuinely submits to and seeks refuge in Allah will never regard
himself as self-sufficient and become limited in that way, but will
constantly seek to improve himself. Every passing day he will
strive to live ever more by the qualities of a believer as revealed
in the Qur'an. His humility can be seen in all his activities. Allah
gives examples about His humble servants in a verse as:
"And the servants of Allah, the Most Gracious, are those
who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant
address them, they say, 'Peace!'" (Surat Al-Furqan: 63)
One of the biggest problems of an unbeliever is his being
conceited, and deifying himself. (Surely Allah is beyond that.)
The Qur'an asks us to consider the fate of those who reject the
truth because of their conceit, although their souls confirm it:
"And they rejected those Signs in iniquity and arrogance,
though their souls were convinced of their truth: so see
what was the end of those who acted corruptly." (Surat
An-Naml: 14)
In contrast to proud people's denial and deviation from the
true path, a believer spends his life striving to discharge the re-
sponsibility that Allah reveals to him. What a believer must, in
fact, constantly combat is his own earthly desires. Allah revealed
the aspect of the lowerself which encourages evil asfollows in the
Qur'an:
I do not say my self was free from blame. The self indeed
commands to evil acts – except for those my Lord has

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