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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.

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Protection against self-admiration and its remedy.

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Self-admiration is a hidden ailment that may stealthily infiltrate the soul.

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Therefore, one must safeguard oneself against it through the following:

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First, by constantly remembering and acknowledging Allah’s grace upon one in all things.

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While remaining aware of one’s own shortcomings toward one’s Lord.

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And recognizing that one has not fulfilled His due right of gratitude and worship, regardless of what one does.

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And that if one were left to one’s own devices, even for a fleeting moment,

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one would go astray and suffer loss.

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Second, by remembering one’s own sins and flaws while forgetting one’s good deeds and acts of obedience.

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Do not be deceived by the strength of your faith or the abundance of your deeds.

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For she who unraveled her yarn after it had been spun strongly,

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unraveled it after it had been made firm.

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“And be not like unto her who unravelleth the thread, after she hath made it strong, to thin filaments, making your oaths a deceit between you because of a nation being more numerous than (another) nation. Allah only trieth you thereby, and He verily will explain to you on the Day of Resurrection that wherein ye differed.” (16:92)

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Third, by considering the person whom one deems oneself superior to,

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and realizing that they may possess hidden righteous deeds that one is unaware of,

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but which Allah knows.

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And that these deeds may be more numerous and greater than what one does oneself.

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Or that the person one considers inferior may indeed not perform as many righteous deeds as one does,

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yet they excel in the performance of their deeds,

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and possess a sincerity in them that the one who admires himself lacks.

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Fourth, by remembering that one’s self-admiration for one’s deeds may render them void,

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leaving them on the Day of Resurrection as scattered dust, at the very moment one is in greatest need of them.