Arrogant Shall Never Enter Paradise

May Allah make it so that each Ahmadi seeks mercy from Allah the Almighty by treading on the path of humility, meekness and civility, and becomes worthy of Allah’s Paradise, and may each home be free from the sin of arrogance.

A hadith recounts that:

Hadrat Abu Sa‘id Khudri ra and Hadrat Abu Hurairahra related that the Holy Prophetsa said, ‘Honour is the garment of Allah the Almighty and grandeur is His mantle. Allah the Almighty says, “Therefore, I shall punish him who attempts to snatch them from Me.’” (Sahih Muslim, Kitab-ul-Birri was-Silah,

Babu Tahrimil-Kibr)

So, in the long run, arrogance incites man to confront Allah. When Allah the Almighty has decreed that He shall not forgive one who associates partners with Him, then how can one who claims to be god-like be pardoned? It was indeed arrogance that created people in the mold of the Pharaoh. You have read about the end that these Pharaoh-like people met and have also witnessed some in this age. It is indeed a cause for fear; each Ahmadi should try and avoid even the slightest particle of arrogance because it tends to spread and completely engulf man. Allah the Almighty has given us this warning, ‘This is My mantle; I am Lord of all the worlds, Grandeur belongs to Me; accept it and show humility. If you try to cross these lines, you shall be punished. Even if you have arrogance only equal to a grain, punishment is in your fate.’ In conjunction with this warning, however, a glad tiding

is also given. Allah says, ‘I shall save you from the torment of Fire if you have the slightest degree of faith,’ as is mentioned in a hadith:

Hadrat ‘Abdullahra narrates that the Holy Prophetsa said,

‘One whose heart has arrogance only equal to a grain will not enter Paradise and one whose heart has faith only equal to a grain will not enter Fire.’ (Sunano Ibn-e-Majah, Al-

Muqaddimah, Babu Fil-Iman, Hadith No. 59)

The Promised Messiahas says:

I tell you truly that on the Day of Judgement after ‘shirk’— associating partners with Allah—there will be no evil like arrogance. It is an evil that disgraces man in both the worlds.

Divine mercy redresses everyone who believes in the Unity of

God, but not the arrogant. Satan, too, claimed to believe in

One God; however, he was arrogant and contemptuous towards Adam whom God loved. Satan criticised him and was ruined, and the yoke of curse hung around his neck. So, the first sin for which a person was eternally ruined was indeed arrogance. (A’inah-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 5, p. 598)

He goes on to say:

If you have any element of arrogance, hypocrisy, conceit, or indolence, then you are not worthy of acceptance. Do not deceive yourselves over a few things, in that you have achieved what you could, because God wishes that your entire being should go through a complete revolution. He demands a death