وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَىٰ أُمَمٍ مِّن قَبْلِكَ فَأَخَذْنَاهُم
بِالْبَأْسَاءِ وَالضَّرَّاءِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَضَرَّعُونَ
Verily, We sent (Messengers) to many nations before you (O Muhammad SAW). And We
seized them with extreme poverty (or loss in wealth)
and loss in health with calamities so that they might believe with humility
.
فَلَوْلَا إِذْ جَاءَهُم بَأْسُنَا تَضَرَّعُوا وَلَٰكِن قَسَتْ
قُلُوبُهُمْ وَزَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
When Our Torment reached them, why then did they not believe with humility?
But their hearts became hardened, and Shaitan (Satan) made
fair-seeming to them that which they used to do.
(Surah Al-An'am 6:42-43)
Allah
sometimes sends down difficulties, trials and tribulations with the long term
goal to make us humble and to remove any form of arrogance from our hearts so
that we may remember our place in this world.
But for
some of us, if our hearts are so hardened by our state of stubbornness, instead
of humbling ourselves, we grow more arrogant and try to justify our evil ways
& we feel complacent and have no initiative to take heed to learn from the
hardship/trial. This is a sign that in fact we have fallen prey to the manipulative
techniques of Shaytan who made our deeds 'Fair-seeming' to us.
May Allah
make us amongst those who, when tested with difficulty, turn humble and remove
arrogance from our hearts, and may He make us amongst those who stand with
integrity, acknowledging our mistakes and not justifying them.
The Prophet
(sallAllahu alayhi wasallam) said “He who has in his heart an atom’s weight of
kibr (arrogance) shall NOT enter Paradise”
“Kibr is to
deny the truth (out of self-conceit), and to scorn & look down upon people”
(Sahih Muslim, Book #1, Hadith #0164)
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