{"id":6245,"date":"2014-03-17T14:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=6245"},"modified":"2014-03-17T06:56:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T04:56:12","slug":"the-most-despised-and-abhorrent-action-is-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=6245","title":{"rendered":"The most despised and abhorrent action is pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Fire-awareness-fire-marshal-training1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"flames background\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6249\" height=\"229\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Fire-awareness-fire-marshal-training1-300x229.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>Once Hazrat Thaanwi (Rahmatullahi Alaihi) mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>According to my understanding, nothing can be more despicable than pride. I detest the sin of pride more than any other sin. Even though there are many grave sins such as committing adultery, consuming intoxicants, etc. which are extremely serious, however, I have a natural aversion and hatred for pride due to it being a branch of shirk. Despite Allah Ta&rsquo;ala being the greatest, by regarding oneself to be great and better than others, one has attributed greatness to oneself. Hence is this not a type of shirk? A proud person, who is a mere slave, is in actual fact attributing a quality (greatness) to himself which is exclusive for Allah Ta&rsquo;ala. (Malfoozaat Hakeemul Ummat 10\/ 54)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once Hazrat Thaanwi (Rahmatullahi Alaihi) mentioned: According to my understanding, nothing can be more despicable than pride. I detest the sin of pride more than any other sin. Even though there are many grave sins such as committing adultery, consuming intoxicants, etc. which are extremely serious, however, I have a natural aversion and hatred for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,14],"tags":[342,410],"class_list":["post-6245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-hadhrat-thaanwi-rahmatullahi-alaihii","category-malfoozaat","tag-hazrat-thaanwi","tag-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6250,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}