- Ujub - to be proud of one’s spiritual state
- Riya - to show off
- Kibr - arrogance
- Hasad - envy
- Bukhul - miserliness
- Kin - to be vengeful
- Kufr - faithlessness
- Bid’at- to distort religion and tradition
- Kufran-i ni’met - to deny the giver of gifts or to belittle the gifts
- To be dissatisfied and complain about one’s state
- To cease to have hope for Allah’s Mercy
- To be sure of Allah’s punishment
- To condone tyranny and help tyrants
- To speak against decent people
- To keep the heart attached to this world
- To keep wanting to be a leader
- To expect approval and compliments
- To fear criticism
- Not to be able to prevent oneself from wanting
- Instead of wishing to learn the truth, being an imitator
- To fawn over people for personal benefit
- To be happy about disasters that fall upon people, even your enemies
- To be a coward
- To be angry
- To be a tyrant
- Not to keep one’s word
- To believe in bad luck
- To think unjustly about people
- To love one’s property
- To be overly concerned with the world and the worldly
- To be ambitious
- To lead an irresponsible life
- To mix oneself into affairs that do not concern one
- To be undignified
- Not to keep the time of one’s devotions due to laziness
- To be shameless
- To lament the loss of things
- To gossip
- To be stubborn
- To be an egoist
- To be a hypocrite
- To cheat
- To be brutish
- To be dishonorable in relations with women
- To be lustful
- Not to accept one’s error and continue insisting on it
- To be afraid of poverty
- Not to believe in destiny or to talk about destiny
- To make oneself depressed
- To take pleasure in belittling others
- To be indiscriminately happy
- To be insincerely kind and fawning over rich people
- To be disdainful of the poor
- To boast and be proud of one’s past
- To show off one’s physical prowess
- To belittle others
- To like to talk long unnecessarily
- To be self centered in conversation
- To forget about one’s own shortcomings and be preoccupied with the shortcomings of others
- To exclude from one’s heart the fear of Allah and the shame and sadness of one’s state
- In distress to make excuses and to fall back on and encourage the nafs
- To decline to help in a struggle for Allah’s sake
- To pretend to be friends with one’s enemy
- To cheat in one’s work
- To set traps for others
- To identify with the world to the extent of forgetting Allah
- To take pleasure in people’s suffering
- Not to suffer because of one’s mistakes
These are like thorns growing in a barren field and show you the ugly attributes of the heart which surface and become visible. Avoid them and beautify yourselves with the opposite of every one of these faults, because the prayer which pleases Allah and which brings you closest to Him is to have beautiful adab.
with permission from:
Shaikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi
Copyright © February, 2000 by Jerrahi Khalwati Order of Dervishes. All rights reserved.
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