{"id":20435,"date":"2023-08-28T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=20435"},"modified":"2023-09-12T07:51:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T05:51:56","slug":"humility-in-the-lives-of-the-pious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=20435","title":{"rendered":"Humility in the Lives of the Pious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The more a person of piety and righteousness progresses in Deen (in acquiring the love of Allah Ta\u2018ala), the more his humility increases. He then continues to progress until he reaches a point where he begins to feel within his heart, \u201cWho can be worse than me?\u201d (i.e. on account of him always looking at his own weaknesses as well as looking at the great favours of Allah Ta\u2018ala upon him and his inability to make shukr to Allah Ta\u2018ala for these favours, he begins to feel in this way).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Qutbul Aqtaab Hazrat Shaikhul Hadith Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya [rahmatullahi \u2018alaih] pg. 515)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=16275\">Ihyaauddeen.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sayings-of-the-pious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20437,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20435\/revisions\/20437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}