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So the word pride almost always has negative connotations throughout the book of

Allah and throughout the sin of the prophet sall alahani was

ala. The prophet peace and upon him said that whoever has an Adam's worth of Kibbin in

his heart, of pride in his heart, will not enter paradise.

It is pride that destroyed Shaytan, that destroyed the devil.

It is pride that has destroyed many nations that came before us and many people that lived in the time of the Prophet peace be upon him before him and after him that rejected the truth out of a sense of pride.

But what Allah does for us is that Allah takes qualities that could be negative and they are instead

harnessed for a greater good and that's something that we find throughout the Quran

as well that this idea of competition that we as people naturally like to compete.

So Allah did not change the competition or did not change the competitive nature of the

Sahaba or the believers by extension, but instead lot directed their competition to something else which was to compete for a loss favor and if you're competing for a loss favor then in the process of that competition you won't do anything to compromise Allah's favor. So Pride does have some

connotations of good at times, but it's very, very limited and very restricted to a few contexts.

So we find, for example, the Prophet's life

that I'm talking about a person who is sitting in a gathering.

And though the word pride is not used,

but if you think about a person of strength, once again, sits in a gathering and the people say something that is displeasing to Allah,

some sort of falsehood, the people are speaking and backbiting or in some sort of falsehood, and a person doesn't say anything and the

Prophet peace be upon him says that that person is raised up on the day of

judgment and is told why didn't you say anything you heard the people saying

such and such and the person says,

she said, well I was afraid of people.

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