Adnan Oktar A9 TV; March 29th, 2014

To criticize one's self and not claiming to be free of blame would make a Muslim adopt the character of a guide. A person's criticizing himself would make him wise and healthy. Exalting one's self would make one sick. It makes one crazy. When one criticizes himself, when one criticizes his lower self, he would be exalted; he would become wise and smart.

Our people don't want to be glowered at. They want to be respected, loved and shown compassion; they would side with those who show them love and compassion. People would be scared of those who smart -mouth them, they would be uneasy around such people. They would be on pins and needles around those who look down on them.

Solely saying "I love God" would not be enough, fear of God is very important. A person who has no fear of God would proud and arrogant. When one feels fear of God, a perfect morality would be formed. Such a person wouldn't be arrogant and egocentric, he would be loving and honest.

Arrogance and haughtiness makes a person look insane. An arrogant person loses his/her intellect and becomes ugly.

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 bigots and the radicals of the End Times would have a great egocentricity, they would put on airs and would get wild and act like Pharaohs; some of them will. But the students of the Mahdi will be humble and loving. Towards whom? Towards Muslims.

Talking pedantically does not become anyone, you should talk about the things you know benignantly.

It is very astonishing that man, being a mortal, can still develop feelings of haughtiness.

Some communists see themselves like an idol –may Allah forbid. They are very selfcentered. They are very difficult and boring to live with.

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.

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.

If one displays egocentricity, people become really vicious against him. That is why modesty is like an armor. Egocentricity on the other hand is a disease that increases aggression and attracts troubles.

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.

In richness, egocentricity and haughtiness comes upon many people. In poverty, humility, tenderness, closeness to Allah and warmth develops and people start being happy with very small things. However in Paradise people will have a soul strong enough to deal with such wealth.

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.

Many of them consider themselves to be superior to Hazrat Mahdi (as). The fact is if their Hazrat Mahdi (as) had existed, they would submit to him with respect. Why didn't satan want to submit? Because of arrogance. Why don’t they submit? Because of arrogance.

Some communists are freakishly proud. They must overcome it and be rational.

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."