Adnan Oktar A9 TV; June 21st, 2015

There is no reasonable aspect of the feeling of superiority. Humans are really wretched beings that are bound to sleep, having difficulty remaining afoot and die in a short while. It is a miracle that such a wretched being could have such an inconceivable feeling of superiority.

When one is drowned in feelings of superiority, God prevents him from drawing closer to religion and takes away his mind.

Feeling a sense of [unjustified] superiority causes snobbery and leads to impertinence. The tragic thing is that they become miserably senseless. For instance, they start lying swiftly and foolishly. They start talking irrationally, saying things that even the most foolish people wouldn't say. Such people have an astounding anarchy in their souls, an insane anarchy and they become prone to unbelief.

Humans have nothing to be arrogant about. You are a being, made up of flesh and bones and blood, you have natural needs, why is it that you put on airs? You are going to die eventually, why are you putting on an act? And life ends in a very short while. Every dead body bloats and explodes inside the grave. There is nothing for you to put on airs about; humans are piteous beings.

You are an ordinary piteous servant of God. Why do you put on airs? Where you go does not honor you. What is there in those places you go? Cement, iron, bricks, stone, wood, asphalt and there are also trees. Why would you be honored because of that?

In the Qur'an God says, ' , in spite of their own certainty about them.' They resisted their good conscience. Otherwise their good conscience demands the right choice and tells them to "do". But they crush it. That is why their faces are darkened. Or else when people do not resist their good conscience, when they listen to the stirrings of their conscience, their faces will be radiant.

One might be beautiful but arrogant and that beauty would not have any meaning. Beauty can also be an incitement. One might be young and beautiful but become mad with arrogance and vanity. You might see someone as ugly but that person could love madly and passionately. That person could then present a thousand times more beauty than those you call beautiful.

You would appear as a mad person when you boast, when you become haughty. That would be very repellent and you wouldn't be loved. When you boast, when you act haughtily you make yourself unlovable. Why do you boast? Why do you act haughtily? You do so, to make people love you, right? Actually it has the exact opposite effect and you lose all the love you have.

If a person is very egocentric, if he likes himself a lot, if he has an extreme air of haughtiness, all his body becomes egocentric. The whole body becomes his ego. His whole body becomes sick. I mean he becomes insane. That is what happened to Pharaoh, to Nimrod. They lost their sanity. When that is the case, satan settles in their body. They become unable to act rationally and in a balanced manner. They lose the ability to be reasonable.

May God give goodness to all of us, to all our people. May He give us peace, brotherhood, tranquility, ease, contentment and exhilaration. May God protect us from dissension, may God not set brothers against brothers. May our Lord settle the disputes among brothers and give Muslims the spirit of friendship, brotherhood and love. May God protect them from self-centeredness, arrogance, haughtiness and from greed for rank and position.

The common characteristic of all the hypocrites in the era of Our Prophet (pbuh) is that they consider themselves superior to Our Prophet and have a desire to stand out beside him. Be it men or women, hypocrites always aim to be the one on the top, to be the greatest. They consider themselves to be God, may God forbid.

Our Prophet (pbuh) says in the hadith, "Most of the hypocrites in my community are from among well-educated people." Knowledge leads them astray and into a desire to be apart from Muslims. Feeling a sense of superiority, hypocrites seek to abandon Muslims, thinking, "I am wiser and smarter."

Gypsies are masters of music, art and humility. An understanding of beauty and quality based on the claim of racial superiority is unacceptable. God bestows success on those who are sincere.

It is an art to put the Qur’an into practice. A wise, reasonable person would understand the Qur’an very well and very nicely put it into practice in his life. For instance, he’d know how to be humble, how to erase the feeling of haughtiness, how love is experienced.

A Muslim is not troubled, dissident and snobbish. A Muslim is an agreeable, humble, gentle and positive person.

One who is patient, forgiving, merciful, honest, modest, and sacrificing will find love.

Fasting brings people humility. People become more open to love and compassion.

If you do not accept humility, if you behave haughty, if you act arrogant, Allah would send scourges upon you. May Allah forbid! If you behave inoffensive, if you behave humble, abundance would come upon you, a feeling of peace would come upon you. You will be filled with radiance inside and out. You will prosper. Otherwise Allah collapses you from all sides. You would not have abundance, peace, peace of mind, idea or any radiance. May Allah forbid! Allah would take His Light away from you.

A Muslim would not adopt an attitude towards a Muslim with the manners of an Emperor. A Muslim should be aware of his/her weakness and his/ her destitution. He/ She should say that he/she is a pitiable servant of Allah. Otherwise there will be a corruption, an upon them.

Ambition for fame does not become a Muslim. In order to educate the lower-self a person should constantly see his/her lower-self in weakness. He /She should submit to Allah, feel great love to his/her brothers and sisters, approach them with affection and live the enthusiasm of being a servant to them.

A Muslim should be like the soil. He should be the most humble one. He will not be the head; he will always try to be the feet. The ambition to become the head is an abnormal act. It is an ambition of the lower-self. It is not something nice. The devout Muslim, the good Muslim, is the one who always wants to be the feet, the servant of the others. Muslim is the one who wants to be the soil; such are the desirable, acceptable ones.

Looking down on people is a very despicable act. Why are you looking down on people? Be their feet, be the soil under their feet. Be humble. We hold those who are humble in high esteem.

Almighty Allah says; "You should not have haughtiness. You will live in your natural self, in your most natural attitude, with your lovingness, with your humility." Almighty Allah says; "You are to know your place." We are nothing anyway, only Allah exists. We are shadow beings. Thanks to Allah.

While establishing the Unity of Islam, the Unity of Islam cannot be attained with pride. Saying; "We are superior, we are great, we are the masters, you should abide by us, we are superior than you." That would not work. "We are servants. We are your brothers, we are friends, companions. We have accepted you as our friends. We've come here to be your servant." Such a humble, loving, well intentioned, friendly and protective attitude is the basis. Nothing can be attained through claim of superiority and grandeur.

Muslims do not have the unity the PKK has among them. They do not even have one tenth of their solidarity. For instance, they live inside a cave on a three thousand meter high mountain. If you ask a Muslim to go live in a cave, very few Muslims would ever accept it. If you ask them to put their lives on the line, they would probably say ,"I have a family, I have my wife, I am supposed to advance in life, I will have my child " and would never put their lives on the line. But see that the PKK militants do put their lives on the line. That is why God gives them success, even if they are in disbelief, simply because they are determined.