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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. As-salamu alaykum and welcome back to Allah Loves. So the word pride almost always has negative connotations throughout the book of Allah and throughout the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The Prophet peace be upon him said that whoever has an Adam's worth of kibbutz in his heart, pride in his heart, will not enter paradise. It is pride that destroyed shaytan, that destroyed the devil. It is pride that has destroyed many nations that came before us and many people that lived in the time of the Prophet peace be upon him, before him and after him that rejected the truth out of a sense of pride. But what Allah does for us is that Allah takes qualities that could be negative and they are instead harnessed for a greater good and that's something that we find throughout the Qur'an as well. That this idea of competition that we as people naturally like to compete. So Allah did not change the competition or did not change the competitive nature of the Sahaba or the believers by extension but instead Allah directed their competition to something else which was to compete for Allah's favor and if you're competing for Allah's favor then in the process of that competition you won't do anything to compromise Allah's favor. So pride does have some connotations of good at times but it's very very limited and very restricted to a few contexts. So we find for example, you know the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam talking about a person who is sitting in a gathering and though the word pride is not used but if you think about a person of strength once again, sits in a gathering and the people say something that is displeasing to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the people are speaking and backbiting or in some sort of falsehood and a person doesn't say anything and the Prophet peace be upon him says that that person is raised up on the day of judgment and is told why
didn't you say anything, you heard the people saying such and such and the person says khashayt al-naas, well I was afraid of people and the Prophet peace be upon him said Allah was more worthy of being feared than those people that were around you. So this isn't pride but a sense of strength right, to raise your voice to speak up when something is happening around you. Now this particular hadith is in Abu Dawud and it has two components, we'll cover one in this video and then we'll cover the next one inshallah in the next episode. The Prophet peace be upon him said that there is a type of pride and the word used is khuyalah, not kibur but khuyalah which is a type of pride or boastfulness at times that is loved by Allah and a type that is hated by Allah. So there is a type of khuyalah, ma yuhibbuhullah that Allah loves, wa ma yughiduhullah and that which Allah hates. So the Prophet peace be upon him said the type of pride that Allah loves is a person in battle or in charity and the type that Allah hates is in oppression, is when it leads to a sense of oppression. So what is the Prophet's slice I'm talking about? Well in war if you think about in battle the people doing their war dances in advance, their boasting in advance, you know I was just in Subhanallah New Zealand and I saw the haqqa and I thought it was the most beautiful thing that I'd ever seen in my life. I want my kids to be able to do that right, but a show of strength right. So the Prophet peace be upon him was amongst very proud people in their ability to fight on the battlefield and that came into the benefit of Islam and to the believers that you had proud warriors that entered Islam as well and that meant something when you're going to battle with a much bigger army. So there's a narration about Abu Dujanah for example, the famous warrior that Abu Dujanah had a certain walk and he had these war dances and he had the red bandana that he would tie around his head before battle and the Prophet saw his boasting and his walking and he said that this is a
walk that is hated by Allah except for in this situation. Like this is a situation that's the exception that this type of pride before a battle is actually a good thing because the maslaha, the benefit of those companions instilling confidence and fear in their enemies was you know it outweighed the typical harm of an act like that. Also when it comes to charity that a person feels a sense of competition that a person is driven to do more. Not that a person boasts or that a person harms or that a person has bad intentions but if this group of people came and they donated this much you know what I want to donate this much instead. They're moved by something else and so it becomes a public competition not out of ego but again out of competing for the favor of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and you see the tribes competing. You know tribalism is a horrible thing but the Prophet peace be upon him allowed the tribes to encourage one another and to compete with one another and trying to do good and trying to come forward with their charity. So if you think about some of the ways that we compete with one another in good the way that Abu Bakr and Umar competed with one another in good that you know what I have to move forward I have to do more service I have to do more charity and competing for that. So that sense of pride is not a bad sense of pride because it has a good purpose the drive is good and the result of it is good as well. The type of hated pride is the one where someone starts to harm someone where someone starts to become arrogant where someone starts to lose sight of the goal and where someone starts to act in a way that is disliked by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So again this speaks once again to one of the qualities of strength that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves that a person feels motivated and competes for the goodness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and takes pride in always trying to be the best at deeds that are best for the best of intentions as well. We ask Allah to grant us that type of healthy pride always from a sincere intention. Allahumma ameen. Jazakum Allah khayran. See you all next time
inshallah. Asalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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