Satan believed his God-given powers qualified him to function as an independent god.1
Satan refused to fall prostrate before Adam when God commanded the angels, becoming arrogant and unappreciative.1
Most religious leaders will not admit when they are wrong, they think they are privileged by God as a group, and some knowingly mislead people to keep their status.1, 2
Judging which messenger is greater, such as saying Ezra would have delivered the Torah had he preceded Moses, is arrogantly making a decision only God can make.1
Rejection of messengers, arrogance, and killing are products of the ego, as seen in those who rejected messengers and in Cain killing his brother.1, 2
Some confidence is healthy, but the ego works like a drug that alters reality, making us forget that everything comes from God and leading us to feel superior to others.1, 2, 3
God honestly tells us that human beings are averse to reminders, unjust, hasty, arrogant, greedy, forgetful, and unappreciative, preferring the ego and this temporary life.1, 2, 3
God reserves the abode of the Hereafter for those who do not seek exaltation on earth.1
We must not become too proud of our garden of thoughts and turn it into an idol, as those proud of their worldly gardens were doomed.1
God is always near and answers those who pray to Him, and supplication is a form of worship that the arrogant refuse at their peril.1, 2
After death there is no more repentance or opportunity, and whoever persists in arrogance as Satan did makes his exile permanent.1
Satan refused to prostrate before Adam out of arrogance, justifying himself instead of repenting, and so he earned God's condemnation and sealed his fate forever.1, 2, 3
God diverts the arrogant from His revelations and miracles, preventing them from witnessing the Quran's mathematical miracle.1, 2
Arrogance, not ignorance, is the cause of racism.1
Racism usually comes from distorting the importance of natural differences like skin, features, culture, and language, or from accepting false differences invented to promote racist ideas.1
Satan, then an angel, was the first racist, refusing God's command to bow to Adam because he claimed to be better, being made from fire rather than mud.1, 2, 3
Gratitude should wash away grief over what one has missed, and appreciation should overcome pride in what God provides.1
The rich should not be haughty or trust in uncertain riches but trust God, do good, and be ready to give and share.1
In the parable of the two gardens, money made the owner arrogant, made him think he was immune to trouble, and made him forget God and the growth of his soul.1, 2
Worldly fame such as a gold medal can become a tougher test, with the risk of pride and ego becoming our god.1
Jealousy makes people covet what others have and breaks God's command not to grieve over what they miss nor be proud of what He gives.1, 2
When people challenge God out of ego, as with the unsinkable Titanic and the shuttle named Challenger, God lets them know who is in charge.1, 2
Crediting your abilities and achievements to your own skills is arrogance, and the correct attitude credits them to God's grace and guidance.1, 2, 3
Even casual broken promises have consequences, since breaking a promise suggests one does not care about honesty, trust, and love and implies arrogance.1
The ego is the most common and influential force leading people to follow their own opinions, convincing them they are smarter and always right, and most people do not realize it.1, 2
When God is seen as not all powerful and reduced to a mere partner of humanity, people see no need to humble themselves before Him.1
The people of 'Ad inherited after Noah and were blessed by God, but their fine buildings made them vain and aggressive, and their punishing storm left their homes standing.1, 2, 3
Since all things come from God, we have no reason to be proud of what He gives, nor to grieve over what we miss.1, 2
Those who boast of their works and want praise for what they have not done incur painful retribution.1
Islam is an Arabic word meaning surrender or submission, and it is not a name that makes anyone better than a neighbor or gives special status with God.1
The best person in God's sight is the most righteous one, not someone defined by wealth, learning, or religious label.1
Those who claim religious superiority are blind to the Quran's teaching that anyone who believes in God and the Last Day and lives righteously, whether Jewish, Christian, or other, is rewarded.1, 2
Purifying the soul of prejudice, ego, resentment, anger, insecurity, and pride brings a person closer to God.1
Religious hypocrisy is among the most loathsome sins, since it presumes the all-knowing God can be deceived by outward piety, and it is rooted in pride.1, 2, 3
Those who boast about their works and want praise for things they have not done incur a painful retribution.1
God should be sought humbly like a child asking a father, never with arrogance, and believers should not think themselves perfect enough to judge other faiths.1
Arrogant egoists ignore their God given guilty conscience and let their jinns cover their minds and emotions, which keeps them from repenting and reforming.1
Even Pharaoh must have thought about what was happening in his life, but his ego was too big to admit and act on any truth that crossed his mind.1
People must not walk proudly on earth.1
The motivation behind giving matters, and giving extravagantly to outdo others or show off is a wrong way to give.1
The Quran states clearly whom God does not love, including aggressors, corruptors, disbelievers, the unjust, betrayers, wasters, gluttons, transgressors, and the arrogant and boastful.1, 2, 3, 4
God provides this evidence to strengthen the believers and to augment and confirm the stubborn arrogance of the disbelievers.1
Prosperity tends to make people forgetful of God and proud, as in the example of the garden owners whose crop was destroyed.1, 2
God has known us since He created us from the earth and as embryos, so we should not exalt ourselves.1
Muhammad taught his people the same shahadah, there is no god beside God, and they responded with arrogance.1, 2