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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Pretension and Conceit Treating the Conceit Sickness **GREAT BENEFIT BY IMAM KHOMEINI IN TREATING CONCEIT INCLUSIVE STATEMENT BY IMAM AL-SADIQ (a.s) TREATING THE CONCEIT SICKNESS** Be informed, dear one, that the physical doctors, whHe treating the physical sicknesses, exert their effort first to find out the cause of the sickness, trying to find out its causing germ.

Once they have succeeded in this stage, they treat the sickness by eradicating the germ with the use of a counter-germ. The patient will then recover his health and safety. Likewise, the scientists of manners and the spiritual doctors have also used this method in treating the spiritual and psychological sicknesses.

Yes, there is a difference between this and that, which is: In the spiritual and psychological sicknesses, the knowledge of the cause of the sickness may itself be its treatment without the need to another process. In other words, in the spiritual sicknesses, the cause of which is ignorance. There is no factor in causing the sickness save ignorance, In this case, if the causes and factors based on ignorance are identified, their structure will collapse and be replaced with knowledge.

The sickness that was rendered to ignorance disappears, and there is no need for a practical treatment program.

For example, when someone is afflicted with fear, and he fears isolation and the dark place, if this person directs his attention to the fact that the origin of his fear is his imagination and whim, and that there is nothing outside his mind at all, and he does not make sure about the harm that he may receive by the outside dark and the isolation..., so if he realizes this meaning, this knowledge itself suffices in the dissipation of his fear from isolation and the dark without the need for a practical treatment, the sickness, which is the subject of our discussion.

I mean conceit, belongs also to this same type of spiritual sicknesses. If one does not entirely lean on ignorance, definitely an important portion of it based on ignorance [i.e, he must leave no share for ignorance to dictate to him what he should or should not do]. It is hoped that this dangerous sickness will disappear by paying attention to what we have stated, to the practical reminders.

If some of it remains in the soul, its owner derives divine niceties and is thus successful in eradicating the substance of this sickness completely, by the will of Allah.