Page 111 - The Arrogance of Satan

WOULD AN ARROGANT

PERSON STILL BE ABLE TO

LIVE BY THE VALUES OF

RELIGION?

t is obvious that a person cannot harbour arrogance and,
at the same time, perform that which is entailed by the
I morality commanded in the Qur' an. That is because,
the most fundamental principle of Allah' s religion is to
acknowledge Allah' s might and to take only Him as a god.
An arrogant person, however, considers himself as a being
apart and independent of Allah, and seeks to satisfy his own
whims and desires. Failing to grasp that he is a servant of
Allah, he glorifies himself with what Allah has granted him
and becomes arrogant. In other words, he deifies himself.
That is why arrogance hinders one from living by the
principles of the religion and leads him to commit a form of
idolatry.
Deifying himself, an arrogant person contradicts the very
basic principle of the true religion; that there is no god but