Ma`rifat

One of the characteristics of Shiites from the point of view of Imam Mohammad Bagher (a.s.) is avoiding pride, grandiosity, arrogance, and selfishness that turn man away from God. We mentioned issues such as greed in the previous discussions. This discussion examines the issue of pride and its relation to self-knowledge. Imam Mohammad Bagher (a.s.) says, "avoid selfishness through self-knowledge." Comparing human life to wrestling with soul, his holiness has expressed the most important tricks and techniques of the soul and the ways to prevent and treat them. Therefore, self-knowledge, attention to the infinite divine blessings and gratitude to Him is the best way to avoid pride, arrogance and temptations of the devil. Thinking about the beginning and the end of human life is the way to cure arrogance, in other words, thinking about where I came from and where I will go?