Character & conductFrom the masjid's own video, Oct 27, 2025.
Arrogance rejects truth and despises people
“Arrogance is rejecting truth and despising people, or looking down on people.”
In one sentence
Arrogance is the most dangerous disease of the heart because it makes people reject Allah’s truth and despise others, so believers must cultivate humility by submitting to revelation and remembering their humble origin and final return to the grave.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Worldly palaces and pleasures are temporary, and death reveals their illusion.
- Arrogance is identified as the shared disease of Iblis and communities that rejected Allah’s messengers.
- Examples involving Iblis, Nuh’s people, Aad, and Fir’aun show arrogance rejecting truth and sealing hearts.
- The authentic hadith defines arrogance as rejecting truth and looking down on people, while distinguishing beauty from pride.
- The cure is humility: submit to Allah’s truth, resist self-importance, and remember human origin and death.
- Umar ibn al-Khattab’s self-correction illustrates confronting superiority, followed by supplication and closing exhortation.
Try this week
Submit to truth from Allah and His Messenger, even when it conflicts with personal preferences, habits, or inherited customs.
Train yourself to reject feelings of superiority and avoid despising people because of race, nation, color, or group.
When pride arises, remember that humans began as a tiny drop and will end in an empty grave.
Counter self-important thoughts by deliberately recalling humble beginnings, following Umar ibn al-Khattab’s example.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“That's the secret now. That what actually arrogance does, it seals the heart. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala seals the heart of arrogant people.”
“Arrogance is rejecting truth and despising people, or looking down on people. Those are the two legs that arrogance stands on.”
“Whenever the truth comes to me from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and His Messenger, we have to submit. We have to say, "Sami'na wa Ata'na".”
“So, the solution, Wallahu A'lam, is to remind ourselves of our origin and to remind ourselves of our ending.”
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