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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

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The story of our mother Hawwa (Eve).

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Hawwa does not act arrogantly toward the truth.

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Allah the Almighty says:

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﴾And [mention] when We said to the angels,

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"Prostrate to Adam," and they prostrated,

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except for Iblis; he refused.﴿

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“And when We said unto the angels: Prostrate yourselves before Adam, they fell prostrate, all save Iblis. He demurred through pride, and so became a disbeliever.” (2:34)

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When Allah created Adam,

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He commanded His angels to prostrate to him as an act of honor and veneration.

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Iblis refused to prostrate,

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out of arrogance against the command of Allah.

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So why did Iblis act arrogantly toward Adam?

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Allah the Almighty explains in another place in the Qur'an

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the reason for Iblis's arrogance.

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He said:

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﴾[Allah] said, "What prevented you from prostrating when I commanded you?"﴿

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﴾[Iblis] said, "I am better than him. You created me from fire

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and created him from clay."﴿

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And Allah the Almighty said:

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“He said: I am not one to prostrate myself unto a mortal whom Thou hast created out of potter's clay of black mud altered!” (15:33)

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“He said: I am not one to prostrate myself unto a mortal whom Thou hast created out of potter's clay of black mud altered!” (15:33)

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Thus, the reason that prevented Iblis from prostrating,

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and led him to act arrogantly against the command of Allah,

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was the corrupt comparison between the nature of his own creation

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and the nature of Adam's creation.

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As for the angels,

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when they were commanded to prostrate,

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they prostrated in obedience to Allah.

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Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

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The prostration of the angels to Adam

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was an honoring of Adam and an act of obedience to Allah,

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not an act of worship toward Adam.

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Qatadah said:

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It was obedience to Allah,

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and the prostration was toward Adam.

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Allah honored Adam by having the angels prostrate to him.

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In this, there is a benefit:

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that when the angels obeyed Allah in what He commanded them regarding the prostration to Adam,

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they did not look at the material from which they were created,

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nor did they look at his work, but rather they focused on the command of Allah.

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Their status was elevated.

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As for Iblis,

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when he disobeyed Allah

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and did not prostrate to Adam out of arrogance,

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the curse fell upon him,

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and he was expelled from the mercy of Allah.

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Likewise, it is said to the woman:

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that when Allah commanded her to submit to her husband,

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and to obey him in what he commands her of that which is obedience or permissible,

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there is elevation for her if she complies.

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But if she disobeys her husband,

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she has shared in the trait of Iblis's disobedience,

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which is refusal and arrogance.

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For nothing truly prevents her from compliance

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except for arrogance.

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Indeed, a woman's arrogance and her refusal to comply with her husband

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leads to belittling him and dismissing his opinion,

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and consequently, belittling the rulings of the Sharia,

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whether she realizes it or not.

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Al-Qurtubi, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

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Regarding the saying of Allah the Almighty:

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﴾And he was arrogant,﴿

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"Arrogance" means considering oneself superior.

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It is as if he disliked the prostration in his own estimation,

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and considered it too great a thing to do for Adam.

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Thus, the refusal to prostrate to Adam

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was a dismissal of Allah's command and His wisdom.

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Regarding this arrogance, the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, expressed:

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"No one shall enter Paradise who has in his heart

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a mustard seed's weight of arrogance."

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A man said:

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"A man likes his garment to be fine and his sandals to be fine."

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He said: "Allah is Beautiful and loves beauty.

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Arrogance is rejecting the truth and looking down upon people."

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Reported by Muslim.

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The meaning of "rejecting the truth" (batr al-haqq)

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is to dismiss it and invalidate it.

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And "looking down upon people" (ghamtu al-nas)

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is to belittle them and hold them in contempt.

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Everyone who dismisses any of the commands of Allah the Almighty,

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or the commands of His Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

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his ruling is the same as his [Iblis's].

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And this is a matter upon which there is no disagreement.

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Muhammad Rashid Rida, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

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"Arrogance" (istikbar) means haughtiness,

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which is appearing with the attribute of pride,

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the effects of which include turning away from the truth.

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So let the woman be wary of that,

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for the beginning of arrogance in a woman's soul

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arises from her feeling

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that she has a merit over the man that prevents her from yielding to him.

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And this is what happened to Iblis.

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Al-Qurtubi, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

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Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them both, said:

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He used to see for himself

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that he had a merit over the angels because of what he possessed.

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Therefore he said:

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"I am better than him."

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And that is why Allah the Almighty said:

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“He said: O Iblis! What hindereth thee from falling prostrate before that which I have created with both My hands? Art thou too proud or art thou of the high exalted?” (38:75)

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"When I created with My [own] hands."

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“He said: O Iblis! What hindereth thee from falling prostrate before that which I have created with both My hands? Art thou too proud or art thou of the high exalted?” (38:75)

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Meaning: You acted arrogantly, yet you have no grounds for arrogance.

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And I did not act arrogantly when I created him with My hands.

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Pride belongs to Me.

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Therefore He said:

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﴾And he was among the disbelievers.﴿

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Al-Shinqiti, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

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Everyone who rejects the texts of revelation using [corrupt] analogies,

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his predecessor in that is Iblis.

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And this analogy of Iblis, may Allah curse him,

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is invalid for three reasons:

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The first is that it is a corrupt consideration,

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because it contradicts the explicit text.

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So the woman who measures the texts with her own intellect

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falls into what Iblis fell into: rejecting the truth and acting arrogantly toward it.

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If Iblis approached the man

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through the door of rejecting Allah's honoring of the woman,

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then he approaches the woman through the door of rejecting Allah's favoring of the man.

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And whoever responds to him,

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the destruction of the family will be at their hands.

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We will continue in a future meeting, if Allah wills.

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And praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.

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The story of our mother Hawwa.