I came across this hadeth, subhanAllah as all of the ahadeeth this one is beautiful!
RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said that on the day of judgment, the arrogant will be assembled on the day of judgment in the forms of men, but in the sizes of ants; humiliation will come to them from every direction. Dharr are the ants that are very small. They will be stepped on by everyone. People will be running on the day of judgment and stepping on it.
This is another hadeeth about kibr , transcribed from one of the lectures,
transcribed lecture of Jamaal al-Din Zarabozo
“…The second characteristic that everyone has to be cautious of, but especially those people who are studying the `ilm, who have been given by Allaah (subhaanahu wa ta`aalaa), who have been blessed by Allaah (subhaanahu wa ta`aalaa) to have knowledge and to be making da`wah, these people have to be very careful about a disease that comes to people of this nature many times, unfortunately, and this is the disease of kibr, of arrogance and pride. And sometimes the way this is reflected is where the person refuses and does not want anyone to correct him, or at least he will not accept correction from certain people. He may accept correction or be told that he is wrong by someone who is from his group, someone who is a close friend of his, but anybody else, he will look down upon anyone else, and he will not accept any kind of criticism from anybody else, and this is kibr. This is pride and arrogance, as described in the hadeeth of the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam).
This sin is so dangerous that RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam says, Whoever has the equivalent of even a small grain of arrogance in his heart will not even smell paradise. If even the amount of a dharra (an atom) of arrogance could get in the heart, that person will not even smell paradise. He won’t even get close, nevermind get in.
This reminds me of an incidence. My friend and I went to this lecture by Shaikh MHY ( Mohammed Hussain Yaqoub )hafidh-haullah, and before the lecture started we saw this sister we ( my friend and I ) didnt like!! ( Ill call her here sis X). So for me I just put my head down and made myself as if I did not see her, in order to avoid greeting her! (astaghfrullah ) . The lecture started and it was about being arrogant! and how you should step on your nafs before others step on you in the hereafter. After the lecture my friend asked me if I has seen sister X? and we smiled, we both new what we were thinkin abtout !! We had to step on our nafs now, or it would be too late! we knew that both of us did not greet her, so we the next step was we both were looking for her all the way in the hall, trying to correct our mistake. We did not find her! may Allah forgive us for being arrogant! yes lets step on our nafs before we are stepped over on the day of judgment!
May Allah protect us from the bad deeds of ourselves and of the evil within us!
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