Foreword

‘A man who has as much as an iota of arrogance in his heart will not enter Paradise.’ Hearing these words of the Prophet, a man asked, ‘What if a man likes to dress in good clothes and wear good shoes?’ The Prophet said, ‘God himself possesses elegance. And He likes elegance. This has nothing to do with arrogance. A man is arrogant when he refuses to accept the truth and considers others to be inferior.’ HADITH OF MUSLIM ON THE AUTHORITY OF ‘ABDULLAH IBN MAS’UD. 52 God accepts the repentance of a man right to his last gasp, before he dies. HADITH OF AT-TIRMIDHI ON THE AUTHORITY OF ‘ABDULLAH IBN ‘UMAR.