RECTIFYING UNDESIRABLE INTERNAL ATTRIBUTES: 7 (talk by Mufti Taqi Usmani DB)

 Similarly, for example, a person has excessive physical desires and he is worried that it will make him do things outside the bounds of Shariah. Then he should ask the Shaykh how to bring those desires under control. Or if he feels, or others tell him, that he is suffering from Takabbur (grandiosity, arrogance) (in terminology of Tasawwuf Takabbur means that a person believes that he is superior to others and others are inferior to him: Translator). This Takabbur is such an illness that most people who suffer from it have no insight that they are suffering from it. No Mutakabbir (a person who is suffering from Takabbur) never calls himself Mutakabbir. If anyone else asks him, “Do you do Takabbur?” he will always reply, “No, I don’t”, (because he truly believes in his heart that other people are genuinely inferior to him, and it is not just his belief). However, other people can recognize the Takabbur in him. So, if other people tell someone that what he does or says is symptomatic of Takabbur, he should ask his Shaykh if it is truly Takabbur, and if it is, what to do about it.

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