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Now, because he's angry at humanity, you expect that he would turn back to Allah and say,

well, you kicked me out of here because I'm arrogant. I'm going to prove to you that they're arrogant.

So they don't deserve this place either. But instead of telling Allah,

oh, you think I'm arrogant, let me show you how arrogant they are. He said, you think I'm arrogant.

Once I'm done attacking them, I will prove to you not that they're arrogant, but they're not

grateful. So it's a switch. The switch is, if the complaint against the devil is that he's

arrogant, then he should prove that I'm not that different from these guys. Look, they're arrogant,

too. But no, he says I will prove that they are ungrateful. What Quran has done so strategically

and so wisely here is that's actually shown us something. The opposite of arrogance, we think

the opposite of arrogance is humility in the dictionary. The opposite of arrogance is what? Humility.

But in the Quran, the opposite of arrogance is gratitude. So Allah is taught us a new

opposite, you see. And so what we're learning now is it is impossible for a human being to be arrogant

if they are grateful. And if they are grateful, there's no way arrogance will hurt them. And the fact

that arrogance occurs that can only be a manifestation of a lack of shukr. If shukr was there,

there's no way that would have happened. So that's the first important thing. When someone says,

hey, at least I'm not arrogant, well, from the Quran's definition, don't just think about arrogance

as someone who thinks very highly of themselves or as full of themselves or as mean towards others.

You and I have to check ourselves how grateful are we? Because if gratitude is missing,

then arrogance is there because these are opposites in the Quran now. These have been placed

against one another. The next thing that's important here, I kept telling you, Shatlan comes from

four directions. And now we're learning, if his attack is successful, what's the goal? The goal

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