When arrogance enters the heart of a Taalib-ul-`ilm:
Imaam al-Dhahabee رحمه الله said:
“The most wicked type of arrogance is that of someone who exalts himself over the people due to the knowledge he has and gloats within himself about his own superiority. The knowledge of such a person is of no benefit to him. Whoever seeks knowledge for the sake of the Hereafter is unsettled by his learning, his heart is humbled and his ego lowered. Such a person always looks out for his selfishness and never gives it free rein. He constantly takes his ego to task and corrects it. Were he to neglect it, it would diverge him from the right path and destroy him.
The person who seeks knowledge to take pride in it or gain a position of leadership, looking disdainfully at other Muslims, thinking them fools and making light to them all this is the most enormous arrogance and no one with the slightest particle of arrogance in his heart will enter Paradise. There is no power nor might save in Allaah Most High, Most Glorious.”
[al-Kabaair (1/78)]
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