Humbleness is the profession of prophets and saints, of the truly wise and pious servants of God. It
Humbleness is the profession of prophets and saints, of the truly wise and pious servants of God. It is this character praised by God that brings one to the highest spiritual levels. To be humble, we have to know ourselves: where we come from, where we are going in this life. We must be aware of the facts and exclude the inventions of our ego and imagination. … [The ego] loves heights and loves itself. It likes to see itself up above everything and everybody. It is blind and deaf to reality. To know ourselves, we must stop doting on ourselves and become objective. We must look at ourselves with neutral eyes, the eyes of the norms of revealed law. Surely every believer will be able to locate generosity between greed and wastefulness; honest work between ambition and laziness; courage between brazenness and cowardice; hope between doubt and rigidity. The median is the center of perfect balance. That is what one has to discover in oneself. But because our ego is apt to push us upwards, it is best to consider ourselves as lesser than we have found ourselves to be. That is what humbleness is. ~ Imam Birgivi, al-Tariqa al-Muhammadiyyah [photo source] -- source link
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