Fall term classes with Shaykh Murabit Benavidez are now open for enrollment through Mutūn, please check out the Mutūn website for more information and share with anyone who may be interested:

https://mutun.org

We should fear looking down at people more than we fear sins. The reasons are:

1) Sins are easily identifiable, whereas arrogance is in the heart and cannot always be seen. We can go years until we realize we're smug.

2) Sins are forgiven by tawba and good deeds, which are not that hard to do. Arrogance, however, is only broken by failure and humiliation, which are much more painful.

3) Allah says He loves the penitent, who are essentially sinners who always repent right away. But He "does not love the arrogant."

4) Everyone except Prophets fall into mistakes yet can still enter Paradise. But "nobody with an atoms weight of arrogance can enter heaven."

-Dr Shadee Elmasry

this series is a hidden gem:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLViukcFTra7ddXd6iR9QKiukAN8NWl1dn&si=ejxIAsruIxz9zIkQ

New Blog Post:

“If the kings and their sons knew what we experience [of pleasure and happiness in Islam], they would fight us for it with their swords.”

Attrib.
Ibrahim ibn Adham