Page 29 - The Solution To Secret Sorrows

Harun Yahya

show a submissive character towards Allah and the faithful, all these
troubles would be at an end.
With submission, they would acquire cheerfulness, tranquility
and happiness in place of sorrow because a submissive person has
no fear of making mistakes. When a mistake he's made is pointed
out to him, he immediately turns towards Allah to ask for forgive-
ness and corrects his intentions and behavior. Moreover, through his
devotion, he regards the correction as a blessing for him and is
happy to think that it is a means of developing himself further. He
sets store not on what others think of him, but on Allah's approval.
Obviously the spiritual state and the life of a person who thinks like
this are quite different from those of a person who suffers tension
and discomfort because of his pride.
Never forget that pride is the basic characteristic of satan. It
caused his expulsion from Paradise, his condemnation by Allah and
has ensured his abode and torment in Hell. For this reason, people
who forget their own feebleness with regards to the power of Allah
and enter into competition with others out of unjustified pride
should fear the same rewards as satan's. Indeed Allah has pointed
out that bitter torment in the Hereafter awaits people who cannot
rescue themselves from the value judgments of the society of the ig-
norant and persist in their obstinacy in the name of personal honor.
Allah tells us how those who pretend to worldly greatness will be
called upon on that day:
Taste that! You are the mighty one, the noble one! (Surat ad-
Dukhan: 49)
True honor and superiority are for people who behave submis-
sively, inoffensively and gently while on Earth. Allah gives the faith-
ful this good news:
If you avoid the serious wrong actions you have been for-

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