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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Pretension and Conceit Consequences of Conceit There are many consequences, and harms of conceit, and their list is as follows : pride forgetting a sin and underestimating it deprivation of the benefits of admonishment and guidance indifference to people's ways of harm non-belief in the mercy and favor of Allah Any of these consequences suffices to render one's perdition and suffering; so, what would you say about all of them combined?!

PRIDE : As regarding pride being one of the outcomes of conceit, it is so because both of these characteristics have one and the same root. In other words, if one is conceited and arrogant, and when one sees himself as being great, his heart's eye will be too blind to see the faults and shortcomings in him. In this case, if he wants to show someone the condition of looking at his own sell greatly, demonstrating the greatness status, he will then be afflicted by the dangerous ailment of pride.

In other words, the condition of conceit and of one who considers himself to be greater than others, so long as it stays inwardly and has no outward manifestation, it is pride. If it gets out through the senses, it is called arrogance. Both conditions, pride and arrogance, need another person besides the individual himself so the latter may see himself inwardly and innately as being greater than others; it is then that one is characterized by pride.

Or he may demonstrate his attitude of thinking he is greater than others to everyone else, hence this person becomes characterized by pride. At any rate, pride and arrogance need the other party. Not all pride is like that. This is the difference between conceit and pride. A conceited person sees himself and his deeds as being great without discerning the others. That is, if we suppose there is nobody who is not conceited, and that Allah.

Praise to Him did not create anyone else besides him, so he lives by himself, he can be imagined as being arrogant. The arrogant person is at the verge of the hell of pride. When he finds someone to whom he can demonstrate his pride, he will then be afflicted with pride and arrogance, and his abode will be hell as is clearly stated in the Holy Qur'an in this verse: "... Is there no abode in Hell for the haughty?" (Qur'an, 39:60). This is one of the dangerous detriments that await the proud.