Superiority Complex Leads to Evil CONTENTS

PRIDE AND SELF-GLORIFICATION One’s ego amplifies the feeling of pride and self-glorification, eating up a person’s virtues and becoming a permanent obstacle to the development of noble qualities. A ccording to a tradition, the Prophet of Islam once observed: “Pride and vanity eats up virtues, just as fire eats up food.” (Shuab al-Iman, al-Baihaqi 6861) The feeling of ego is natural to a human being. No one is bereft of the “I”. This feeling is very precious for a person. This is because a person must have determination and confidence. In leading his life, he should brave all hardships with self-confidence. In that way he will keep on progressing. But most people make a wrongful use of this feeling. Their feeling of the “I” or the ego turns into selfconceit or self-glorification. This is a wrong use of it. And the wrong use of anything always makes it evil, no matter how innately good things may be.