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Humbleness - The Head Of Goodness & The
Basis Of Worshiping
Approaches Of Humbleness Extensions As
Concept, Jurisprudence and Application
 Al-Abbas Holy Shrine
Department of Intellectual and Cultural Affairs
Unit of Studies
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The Book: Humbleness - The Head Of
Goodness & The basis Of Worshiping
Edited By: Hassan Al-Hashimi
Translated By: Buraq Abd Ul-Hassan
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 Prelude
Which is appropriate for man - to be humble or
arrogant?!
Perhaps the perfect instinct says be humble, but
the human’s evil self says loudly: “Be arrogant.”
Although we know by experience that the humble
person digs his name and his love in people’s hearts,
completely opposite the arrogant as we know, who
will be despised and neglected among the people.

Once humbleness denotes elevation and ability

which is regarded as the best kind, and once it can
match with it, and this stands in the middle or it can
be vanity, arrogance and superiority and this is the
worst kind of humbleness.

So, the desired humbleness mentally and legally

is that which signifies elevation and integrity. So, it
is necessary for us to direct our efforts in the way
of achieving this sublime privilege by inculcating
inside the human spirit which makes man give and

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never take, and grants and never postpone, yet their
giving and their granting will leave some worldly
consequences which only the humble person picks
its results, which the most important of them is
sublimity, dignity and people’s love.

To suppress this trend of- superiority in the

human, you should inhibit your arrogant instinct,
with things which may look tiny and mean but in fact
they are great and big in pushing the human spirit
forward and thus overcoming the whim of arrogance
implanted in it.

The first step in this direction is the issue of

initiating the act of greeting anyone you happen to
get across. The second step is becoming content in
private or public meetings and get togethers to have
your seat at the back and not necessarily in the front.
As a nation, we ought to look forward to a
promising future, with regard to the tortured humanity
and the vulnerable on account of the skirmishes

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arising from self-love, selfishness, vanity, arrogance
and bragging.

If we want to survive, we have to draw ourselves

to the safe side of the beach where people can
enjoy their existence in life with honor, dignity and
supremacy by following the path of the brilliant
humbleness - the path which has not been tracked
by anybody without having got out triumphant and
rescued.

As for those who abandoned this path they will

undoubtedly perish and fall, that is why we did this
humble effort which can be the safest way to achieve
the goals of a nation by being helpful with each other
within a society - dominated by love, familiarity and
humbleness.

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 Let Us Share Together the Advantages Of
Humbleness
Humbleness means that man must be looked
upon by others through his good manners, sublime
virtues ant the merit of not favoring himself above
others but to thank Allah for His graces and His gift
and to bear in mind that everything is from Allah and
that if Allah wills, He will take back all the conferred
graces in a twinkling of an eye.

Humbleness initiates with respecting people

according to their status, and never looks down on
others, though humbleness is considered as the
most honorable trait-why not?

Thus it is, as universally acknowledged, a generous

mode of behavior and an adorable attribute that
captivates people’s hearts and wins the admiration
and respect of all the people, not to mention His
favor when Allah, the Almighty ordered His beloved,
the master of His prophets (peace of Allah and His

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blessings be upon him and upon his pure progeny)
«And lay down your wings to those who follow you”(1(

Laying down your wings is a commendably

exaggerated form of humbleness, love of goodness
and paying charity to others. The successful leader is
the one who is endowed with a broad breast, civility
and care-taking of people, these remarkable qualities
run deep into the hearts of the people voluntarily.

As for the relationship of the oppressors and

tyrants with their people, whatever adornment official
media and outward public appearances try to add to
make the state of being look real has turned out to
be no more than scattered piles of accumulated foam
on sea beaches - once they prevail momentarily they
vanish away and get buried in oblivion.”

V. Al-Shu’ara’ 215

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 The message of the Prophet of Allah (Peace of
Allah and His blessings be upon him and upon his
pure progeny) has contained all the implications of
humbleness-of sayings, actions, deteriorative points
and reports–free from everything that comes from it
such as: feeling of greatness, actions and movements;
therefore these prerequisites should become the
model guidance for every believer to follow.

Abu-Sa’eed narrates:
«He (peace of Allah and His blessings be upon him
and upon his pure progeny) is easy in subsistence,
soft in mood, generous in nature, with a cheerful face,
ever smiling but not laughing, sad but not cheerless,
severe but with no violence, humble but without
humiliation, neither extravagant nor close–fisted,
merciful to all the relatives, close to Muslim and
non-Muslim, soft-hearted and ever bowing down in
contemplation.”

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 The Prophet of Allah said:
«Whoever humbles to Allah, in return, Allah will
raise his status. Beatitude to those who humbled
without humiliation, and spent what they collected of
money without disobedience, and have been merciful
to the humiliated people and the poor and coexisted
with the people of logic and wisdom.» (1)

Based on what we stated a little ago, humbleness

is defined as giving to people what you love to give,
and this sublime behavior should be inculcated as
an attribute in the human without pretention, the
self should be in fatigue with him and in comfort
with others, loving good for others as he loves it for
himself, and pushes the harm away from others as he
pushes it away from himself, he is to be merited by
forgiveness, altruism, consolation, generosity, mercy,
and love of obtaining knowledge.

1-(Amali Al-Tosi/V.1 / P. 185)

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 For a long time humbleness has been a dream
enticing the good doers and that of having a deep
effect on purifying the self to raise it to perfection
level. A humble person steadily strives to see his
spirit as being ever afflicted with a setback so that he
can prevent it from thinking that it is above others and
keeps it binding in word and deed to showing high
regard an respect to others. It is said that Allah has
inspired Moses(peace be upon him) has said:
“Indeed I accept the prayer of anyone who
humbles to My greatness, and not to favor themselves
upon My creation, and keeping himself to fearing Me,
devoting their whole day time in remembrance of Me
and abstaining from lustful desires for My sake.”

Humbling in front of the Almighty of the heavens

and the earth is a feature of the Prophets, Messengers,
Guardians and Trustees.

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 Verily, pride is Allah’s apparel and no one is worthy
to have it, what so ever his status is but Allah, therefore,
humbling to Allah’s pride and to the greatness of His
creation is in fact, honor, dignity, sovereignty, and
rightness.

Humbling is for Allah the Almighty, is just like a

recharger device for the humble, while he in touch
with the people, and not to be haughty upon them,
because Allah accepts the humbles works as he is
closer to the Allah’s sight than being away from Him,
incase his deeds such as pride, hypocrisy and bad
become defective.

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 The Best and the Worst Kinds of Humbleness
The biographies of the wise as well as human
experience confirm that one who humbles, his
status elevates and gets to be popular in his
social environment, and everyone will trust the
humble person on their property, thus man is to be
familiarized and be familiar with the people, good-
mannered and high-spirited unlike the arrogant one,
so that honorable people would not be infected with
his tyranny and misbehavior therefore, Allah’s law
in the universe raises the humble person’s status
in continuous glory but, the arrogant one will be in
degeneration in Allah’s sight.

This is the real secret of the brilliant page of

Prophets and Guardians on the one hand and the
darkened page of oppressors and tyrants throughout
history on the other hand.

The best kind of humbleness is to be endowed

with sublimity and strength such as having the power

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of forgiveness with capability.
The Prince of the Faithful(peace be upon him) in
Nahj el-Balagha said:
«What a great humbleness it would be when the
rich humble to the poor, asking from what Allah has.
And yet, the poor swagger upon the rich depending
on Allah».

In another part in Nahj el-Balagha the reader can

find the definition of the abhorrent and the most
hateful kind of humbleness as manifested in the
following :

“Whoever comes asking for alms from a rich man

and humbles to him, he will lose two-thirds of his
religion.” (1)

Nahj el-Balagha, Imam Ali (peace be upon him) speeches, (V.

4P. 95(.

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 It is worth to be mentioned that recommended
humbling is that which is characterized with intent
and sobriety and which admits neither extravagance
which will lead to indignity and loss of personality
nor dispersion which may lead to becoming vain and
arrogant.

The wise usually take the safe side of the matter

by choosing the middle path or as we usually use the
term of the “golden mean”, and in this way we can avoid
extremes by giving each person what he deserves of
self-esteem and appropriate consideration according
to his qualifications and stature.

That clearly explains why it is unfavorable to get

humble to the selfish and the haughty and make
them feel their superiority over others in the view
of their being living in luxury and smugness. In this
case, such humbleness will lead to humiliation and
disgrace, and this , in consequence, will encourage
them to be persistent on maintaining their selfishness

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and arrogance.
As Al-Mutanabi said:
«If you honor the generous, he will feel he owes
you but if you honor the ignoble he will turn rebellious
against you.”
And in saying:
«A man-humbling in his high-rank, will fall to the
gloats in his fall».
Thus, integrated humbleness is to give the
right to the right holder in matters of respect and
consideration but with no excess, therefore, the
middle state in moral behavior with people would
make it possible moderator to pull the rug from
under the feet of the utilitarian and those who fish in
muddy waters.

In fact, moderation in dealing with people will

enable man to be far away from the abnormal behavior
of the arrogant and vain characters and man is still
picking the delicious fruits of moderation in his social
behavior with the people whether he is at work or idle.

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 Is the (Lecher) included in the domain of
humbleness ?!
May a question come into your mind as to how
a pious scholar ought to humble to an ignorant
lecher, and see this lecher better than him, while his
lecherous deeds and ignorance have become well-
known to him while the scholar is well aware of his
competence in science and piety. How can it be
lawful for him to love a lecher or an unbeliever and
humble himself to him and not to be hostile to him
while in the meantime we know that he is hated by
Allah where we in that case obliged to hate him So,
gathering between humbleness and hatred is like
gathering between two opposites?

The answer is: in fact, humbleness is not to see

yourself as possessing advantages better than
others, but this does not mean that you are forbidden
from enjoying what you possess of the apparent
features which characterize you such as: science,
worship, generosity, justice and avoidance of having

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forbidden money and other things.

The real advantage that can be of benefit to man

during his life - time is to achieve a happy ending
before exiting from this world but consequences of
man’s deeds are obscure and ambiguous and no one
can exactly decide as to whether his deeds will guide
him to Paradise or to Hell.

It is quite possible for a disbeliever or a blasphemes

to enter Heaven if he truly gets repentant before
he passes away and turns his direction of worship
from Satan to Allah, the Almighty. In the meantime
he requests Allah for forgiveness and concludes his
life with faith and can misguide that pious man who
suddenly abandons the path of faith and follows the
path of Satan and concludes his life with blasphemy
and enter Hell.

It is incumbent upon everyone who sees someone

apparently more evil than him-to say to himself or to

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others:
He may be rescued and enter Heaven and I get
ruined and enter Hell. As man is forgetful and can’t
gather the details of the things he has done in past
nor those in the present and what there is in store for
him in the future he can’t judge by himself all of that
at one go.

For this reason man cannot purify himself. Except

Allah, the Almighty. We can conclude on the whole
perfection demands man to be near to Allah and that
the happiness in the Hereafter depends upon your
doing good in your life and abandoning evil–that is to
negate showing off and preserve humbleness.
In addition, you should keep in your mind that
loving the lecher and being humble to him should
be devoted for the conclusion sake before departing
from this world and nothing more, and also hating
him for what he ever shows, like infidelity and
lecherousness.

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 When man gets angry with someone at some
wrong done by him- that anger should be for Allah’s
sake so as to win His sight, and not for your sake and
that your fear should be about yourself for what you
have hidden of sins which Allah knows more than
being afraid about him with ignorance of what befalls
in conclusion.

It is not necessary to be angry for Allah’s sake by

exercising power over the lecher and be snooty on
him for just that you are angry for Allah, the Almighty.
As an example for that-Suppose there is a king who
is having a boy and a child . This king authorizes the
child to watch and hit the boy whenever he disobeys,
but if he keeps busy on something not appropriate for
him, the king will be angry with him.

Verily the child was obedient and loving to his

guardian and gets angry with him if he disobeys
showing submissiveness to the king’s order, and
still he loves him because he returns to him by birth,

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and not to be arrogant with him but humbling to him,
though he sees his guardian’s position above him,
because the boy is of course dearer to the King’s
heart than the child.

Humbleness is of two parts, they both juxtapose

each other- arrogance constitutes one part which
represents the detestable extravagance while the
other part stands for dispersion which brings about
debasement and degradation.

The commendable one lies in between the two

parts which is well represented by humbleness that
can equally give each part the rights it deserves no
more nor less . In other words moderation as a general
rule is the best means between two extremes. English
people usually speak of this moderation as being–the
golden mean.

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 Some Of Humbling Results
Human nature instinctively disdains arrogance,
appeals to humbleness and avoids artificiality in
speech especially in crucial situations.

Perhaps, the only attribute that captures peoples’

hearts and captivates their minds, is to see a person
having the qualifications of vanity and arrogance but
favors to be entering the humbling city from its widest
gates- so, you see him self-restrained bearing an
attractive, familiar and accepted personality - far away
from pretention and hypocrisy, usually characterized
by goodness truly proved and approved by those who
owe him a great deal of favors.

This is what is meant by wearing the apparel of

humbleness without pretention and artificiality. Within
this domain we adduce to you an example of a man
said to another, “Teach me humbling»

In reply he said: “If you see a man who is older

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than you, say: He preceded me to the righteous work,
therefore he is better than me ; and if you see one
who is younger than you say: “I preceded him in
doing sins and bad work; therefore, I am more evil
than him».

If this sense generates inside a person, he will

lay down the proper bases of humbleness and so he
can build upon it a great building, which enables him
to see the defective sides of his work through his
general behavior and overall speech.

In this manner he can nominate the qualified and

practical person who acts moderately - fully aware of
the demanded courtesy to be practiced in meetings
and conferences-humbly accepting to have his seat
even if it be below his honorable status, preceding
others, whom he comes across in greetings ;
avoiding flattery even though he is right in the sense
of speaking ill of someone’s speech to make it
appear as defective with the aim of surpassing him

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in progress and exceeding him in qualifications and
seeks praise from none but Allah for his piety and
uprightness and refrains from hypocrisy, lip-service
and conceit.

The more the human gets to know himself, his

essence, his existence and the origin of his creation,
the more he gets involved in showing humbleness
and pleading especially to the believers who share
him the same faith.

Still the humble person is gaining respect and

solemnity among the people and still he is a glittering
star in the horizons, as long as he maintains good
faith that his humbleness is instinctive by nature
and that it underlies no other fringed benefits. The
following lines of verse praise the attribute of humb
leness.:

Humble to the Lord of the throne, you may elevate

Never despairs the slave of the Lord in any state

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 Be humble like a star that reaches the beholder
On the pages of water while it is high up–above
the horizon
Don’t be like smoke which takes itself up but
humiliated
To atmospheres far-off and beyond–far beyond
reach.

Let’s have a look at the results of what we have

already mentioned:
1. Spreading love and friendliness among people.
2. Living among cooperative people, dominated
by the peace and safety.
3. Surrounding the humble with a halo of
appreciation and veneration amongst their relatives
and friends.
4. Showing obedience and gratitude to the -
Great Creator - for His previous graces, favors and
generosities.
5. Spreading virtues and good manners within the
different sectors of society .

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 Ahlul-Bayt (peace be upon them) as the
peak of humbleness
We adduce to you here some of Ahlul-Bayt’s
(peace be upon them) virtues and their unique and
typical example of humbleness.

The Prophet (Peace of Allah and His blessings

be upon him and his pure progeny) was the most
humbling one at that time, and if he entered a house,
he would sit at the end of the assembly and at home
he used to perform the required family task such as
milking the sheep, patching his clothes, mending
his shoe, serving himself, carrying his goods from
markets, sitting with the poor and feeding them.

If someone discloses a secret to him, he will

never turn away his head until the other one does
; and if someone takes his hand in greeting, the
Prophet(Peace of Allah and His blessings be upon
him and his pure progeny) won’t draw his hand back
until the man does and if someone sits beside him,

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he (Peace of Allah and His blessings be upon him
and his pure progeny) will not stand up until the
other person does.

He starts Salam (greeting) whomever he comes

across and extends his hand first when shaking
hands with his companions, and is never seen
stretching his feet among his companions, honors
whoever comes to him, perhaps he would stretches
his robe for him and lay it down, so he would let
the guest share him even the rug that is under him,
nicknames his companions as a way of honoring
them and addresses them by loveliest names, and
never interrupts anyone’s conversation.

He used to divide his moments among his

companions, he is ever seen smiling and in high
spirits when being among his friends and among the
people.

Abu -Thar narrates saying: “ While the Prophet of

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Allah(Peace of Allah and His blessings be upon him
and his pure progeny) happens to be sitting among
his companions, a stranger supposedly comes in
but stays bewildered as who, among the gathering,
could be the Prophet to ask about him.
For this reason we recommended to keep a
meeting-place recognizable by strangers who come
to visit him so we built a mud-shop for him where he
used to sit beside him.

It is said that he (Peace of Allah and His blessings

be upon him and his pure progeny) was on travel and
he ordered his companions to slay a goat. Just then
one said: “I will slaughter it”, and another one rose
and said: “I will flay it”, and still another one said:

“I will cook it”, then the Prophet said: “I will gather

the wood”, but they said: “O, the Prophet of Allah,
we are enough to accomplish the task for you”, then
he said: “I know that you enough for me but I hate to
favor myself upon you because Allah hates to see his

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slave favored above his friends.”, so he gathered the
wood.

It is also narrated that the Prophet of Allah(Peace

of Allah and His blessings be upon him and his
pure progeny) was going out to the well to wash, so
Huthaifa-the son of-Yaman took a dress to cover the
Prophet(Peace of Allah and His blessings be upon
him and his pure progeny), so, he covered him until
he washed, then the turn of Huthaifa came to have a
wash and the Prophet of Allah(Peace of Allah and His
blessings be upon him and his pure progeny)took the
dress to cover him, Huthaifa didn’t accept and said:
“My father and my mother be sacrificed for you,
O, Prophet of Allah, don’t do that, so the Prophet of
Allah refused to listen to his murmur and continued
covering him with the dress until he washed.
Then the Prophet said: “When two companions
go out, Allah loves the gentler one to his companion.”
(1)
Look to Safeenat Al-Behar V.1 \ P. 415-416

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 Man had better not favor himself above others as it
is a beautiful feature that gives its advantage speedily
among people, and may only the great who occupy
the people’s hearts, can be characterized with such
a blessed feature. We are not wrong, of course
wrong if we remark that all prophets and guardians
are simultaneously merited with such noble manners.
It is no exaggeration at all is we proclaim that the
greatest messenger(Peace of Allah and His blessings
be upon him and his pure progeny) stand at the top
list of the humble and-even the holy Quran refers to
his manners, saying:
{And by the Mercy of Allah, you (Muhammad)
dealt with them gently. And had you been severe and
harsh-hearted, they would have broken away from
about you; so pass over (their faults), and ask (Allah’s)
forgiveness for them; and consult them in their affairs,
then when you have taken a decision, put your trust
in Allah, certainly, Allah loves those who put their trust
(in Him).} (1)
Al-Aumran: P.159

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 Obviously, those who completely linked with Allah,
definitely are the typical example of humbleness in
matters of offers. None of mankind can reach the
sublimity, good reputation and loveliness among
people, until they get to be nearer to Allah, the
Almighty, to win His sight and divine consent.
Undoubtedly, what is for Allah will grow up and
what is not mat witness a seasonal growth, but
eventually the wind shall puff it away and the sun shall
corrupt it.

The Prince of the Faithful (peace be upon him)

has been endowed with high manners among which
humbleness stands in the van.
Dharar, in his description of the Imam (peace be
upon him) said: “He was among us, like one of us,
bringing us closer if we came to him, answering us,
if we asked him, visiting us, if we invited him, telling
us, if we asked him ; by Allah, owing to drawing us
closer to him and his being close to us, we rarely dare
to speak to him for his prestige.

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 If he smiles, he looks like a precious pearl-glorifies
men of religion, draws the poor closer to him, he
doesn’t let the strong go on their falsehood nor let the
weak be disappointed from his justice.”
Imam Al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: “The
Prince of Faithful (peace be upon him) went out to his
companions, so they walked behind him, suddenly he
turned to them and said: “Do you need anything? “
They replied: No, O Prince of the Faithful, but we
loved to walk with you.” Then he said:
“Go away, because walking with the rider is a
corruption for the rider and humiliation for the walker.”
(1)

1-Mahasin for Ahmad Al-Burqi V. 2 /P.629

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 This is how narrators relate to us such an enjoyable
part of the humbleness of the well-guided Imams
(peace be upon them) and of their noble manners, for
example, the humbleness of Imam Hussain (peace
be upon him) is that he once he passed by a number
of poor men while they were eating something, he
greeted them, so they invited him to their food, and
he sat with them and said: “ If this isn’t of alms, I
would gladly eat with you. Then he said: Get up and
accompany me to my house, and there he fed them,
offered them some clothes and had them paid some
money”. (1)

1-Manaqib Ibn ShahrAshoub V.3\ P.222

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 As for Imam Al- Ridha’s humbleness (peace be
upon him) the narrator said:
“I was with Imam Al-Ridha (peace be upon him)
in a travel to Al-Khurasan. One day he invited me to
have a meal with him-so he gathered his followers
from Sudan and others to this table, then I said: “My
lord,( May I be sacrificed for you) why don’t allocate a
separate table for them to which he replied: “Don’tsay
that: “Allah- the Exalted and the Blessed is but One
the God, the mother is one, the father is one and
recompense is according to man’s deeds.”(1(
This is only a few out of many, from such stories
of Ahlul Bayt’s humbleness (peace be upon them),
and what we adduced so far of examples is enough
for the sake of avoiding prolongation.

Al-Kafi V.8 /P.230

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 Humbleness is the Attribute of the Great
and the Function of the Prophets.
Since, what exalts the human is humbling, and
that Allah immediately will push that person’s love
unto the people hearts, you see the great who
abstain from the temptation of this temporal life are
the humble indeed , in whose hearts humbleness is
well-pasted inside themselves, that is why they are
characterized in this feature.

These spirits still deeply smell the breath of

humbleness far away from the storms of hypocrisy,
bravado, show off and deception, and from this aspect
you see the people gathering around the humble
and from their deep hearts they trust it because it is
unchallengeable and stands at the head of all good
manners without dispute.

This feature is reliable and no one can get it unless,

his heart should pass the exam of Allah the Almighty
in faith and must have patience in hardships and

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sufferance, which is inside mankind such arrogance,
show off and pompousness, In other words only
the omnipotent can carry enough of chastity and
devoutness and eventually can defeat his desires
and follow the right path whatever he suffers from
weariness and fatigue.

When humbleness becomes an instinct in the

human, he will get to be able to handle its correlated
items with all the sectors of the society altogether
and his only aim is Allah, the Almighty’s satisfaction
and the fulfillment of His orders which undoubtedly
add a special aura and sanctity which can’t be felt
even in monarchs and kings. In fact such a feature
is specified to those who are chosen by Allah, the
Almighty from the honorable slaves.

When Salman-the Persian was chosen to be a

ruler on Al-Mada’n, he rode his donkey towards Al-
Mada’n alone, Once the people of Al-Mada’n knew
that he was coming, they rushed out the city for

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welcoming him. He covered a distance despite his
being old and riding a donkey, he eventually met -the
people of Al-Mada’n- face to face, then they asked
him: “O, old man, did you see our prince?
He replied: “Who is your prince?
They said: “He is Salman-the Persian and he is one
of the companions of the Messenger of Allah(Peace
of Allah and His blessings be upon him and his pure
progeny) He replied: “I am Salman-the Persian but I
am no prince»

Then they came-down from horses to do him

due homage and honor, so they presented him an
original horse to mount.
He said: “Mounting on a a donkey suits me and
is good for me».
When he arrived in the city, the tried to take him to
the palace house.
He said: “I will not go to the palace house, because
I am not a prince».
So, he hired a shop in the market for the sake of

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running religious and secular affaires, and all that he
owned were the following: a pillow, vessel of water
and a stick.

Those Who Walk on the Ground in

Humbleness

With stable and integrated steps free from

swaggering and haughtiness and vain attitude, you
can see him walking and hastening the steps without
causing harm to anybody ; he is easy and soft in his
walking, his attitude and his behavior ; therefore why
not he be like that, and he is the one who took his
manners from the Merciful - then he became one of
the honored and the trustful slaves in word and deed.
Thus, Allah the Almighty would not accept the slaves’
worships without bearing the title of humbleness.

Allah the Almighty said: “And the (faithful) slaves

of the Most Gracious (Allah) are those who walk on

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foolish address them (with bad words) they reply
back with mild words of gentleness.” (1)

Yes, humbleness is the farm of submission,

devotion and shyness, so these features can’t be
established unless from it and in it, besides, perfect
honor doesn’t keep safe except by the humble, and it
still stands for the brothers’ rights and performs them
in the best way, and communicates with everyone
and tightens their morale, completes their needs
and make their things easy and eventually doing that
without harm, hypocrisy or ingratitude.
But verily it is a tree implanted inside the self,
watered and bred with his faith and commitment to
the divine orders, till it becomes ripe enough to avail
himself of it and be of avail to the far-off and the near-
by people, so they can graze and feed but everyone
according to his capacity and his power of carrying
containers.
1-( Surah Al-Furqan V.63)

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commendable humbling is what is identified by our
master Imam Kadhum (peace be upon him) who said:
“Humbleness : is to give to others what you wish
them to give you.”

He was then asked about the limit of humbleness,

that: if any slave did it , would then be regarded
as humble to which he replied: “Humbleness is
measured by degrees some of it, is that man should
know himself (in person), so he ought to place it in its
proper position as in having it bear a pure heart, loving
not to come to anybody unless to come likewise to
him.” and if he saw a sin, he would replace it with
charity, hiding rage, people forgiver and Allah loves
the good doers.” (1)

1-Jami’ Al-Sa’adat, Muhammad Mahdi Al-Naraqi (V.1 P.311)

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Prelude.............................................................................5
Let’s Share Together the Advantages of.Humbleness.8

The Best and the Worst Kinds of

Humbleness...................14
Is a (lecher) included in the domain of
humbleness?..................18
Some Results of Maintaining
Humbleness.............23
Ahlul-Bayt (peace be upon them) as the peak of
humbleness......................27
Humbleness is the Attribute of the Great and the
Function of Prophets.......36
Those Who Walk on the Ground in
Humbleness...................39

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