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Character & conductFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 26, 2026.

Arrogance rejects truth and harms the heart

Masjid Istiqlal

“Arrogance means rejecting the truth and looking down on people.”

The khateeb, at 18:22

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In one sentence

Arrogance is a hidden disease of the heart that must be cured through humility, prayer, charity, self-reflection, and remembering our ultimate accountability to Allah.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Introduces spiritual diseases and the choice between discipline and regret.
  2. Defines arrogance through Iblis’s disobedience and sense of superiority.
  3. Explains how knowledge, beauty, wealth, piety, and authority can produce arrogance.
  4. Describes arrogance’s spiritual consequences and distinguishes beauty from superiority.
  5. Prescribes prayer, charity, service, self-reflection, and remembrance of human origins.
  6. Closes with supplications and practical community announcements.
Try this week
Practice self-reflection every day or every other day to notice spiritual faults.
Maintain salah and use sujood to ask Allah for humility and a softer heart.
Give sadaqah regularly, even as little as a dollar, and involve children in giving.
Seek out needy people in the community and help them.
Invite people back to the deen directly instead of speaking about them behind their backs.
Remember human origins, death, and accountability when blessings or status encourage pride.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 7The story of Iblis refusing to prostrate to Adam illustrates arrogance as disobedience and superiority.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“we must go through two different types of pains in our lives the pain of discipline or the pain of regret”
Masjid Istiqlal · Sugar Land, TX
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“the knowledge is in amanah is a trust from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala our responsibility is to pass on the knowledge so others can benefit from it too”
Masjid Istiqlal · Sugar Land, TX
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“arrogance means rejecting the truth and looking down on people”
Masjid Istiqlal · Sugar Land, TX
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Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Today’s khutbah reminded us that arrogance is a hidden disease of the heart. It can grow through education, beauty, wealth, piety, or authority when we start treating other people as lesser. The speaker urged us to choose the pain of discipline through self-reflection, prayer, charity, and helping people instead of the pain of regret. We should remember that every blessing is from Allah, share our knowledge humbly, and invite others with care rather than speaking behind their backs. In the end, we all return to the same earth and answer for how we used what we were given.

  1. What is one blessing you can thank Allah for without comparing yourself with others?
  2. How could we practice humility at school, work, or home this week?
  3. What is one small sadaqah or act of help our family could do together?
Where it was given

The masjid

Masjid Istiqlal Houston15303 Mc Kaskle Road, Sugar Land, TX 77498ArchiveAll khutbahs at Masjid Istiqlal20 khutbahs
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