Superiority Complex Leads to Evil CONTENTS

TO WHOM IS GOD’S MERCY DENIED The greatest obstacle to finding the truth is arrogance; the greatest thing in favour of finding the truth is modesty. C hapter 45 of the Quran states: “Those who believed and did good deeds will be admitted by their Lord into His mercy – that shall be the manifest triumph. But those who rejected the truth [will be asked], ‘When My revelations were recited to you, were you not arrogant and did you not persist in wicked deeds?’” (45:30-31) The greatest obstacle to finding the truth is arrogance: the greatest thing in favour of finding the truth is modesty. One who is arrogant comes to regard himself to be so superior that he feels he is greater than the truth. When the message of truth is conveyed to him, this mindset causes him to feel that it would be belittling for him to accept it. This thinking becomes an obstacle to his accepting the truth.