Post by Bayyinah | Nouman Ali Khan

There is a kind of arrogance most people never recognize as arrogance, because it looks nothing like pride. It looks like diplomacy, negotiation and concession. When the years of disasters had broken Egypt to its knees, no rain, no crop, frogs, locusts, lice, blood, the same generals who had made public speeches about how they would never give in, came to Musa quietly. Without Pharaoh knowing. They negotiated behind his back. They said: pray to your God. We swear. If He removes these disasters, we will let the Israelites go. We are ready to listen. Allah tells us something remarkable here. Just a few verses earlier, He said these people were arrogant and criminal, and now they are asking Musa with apparent humility. The contradiction is obvious or is it? Because Allah is teaching us that there are two kinds of arrogance. There is the arrogance that puts its face out openly, that says: I am above you. And there is the arrogance that holds a knife in one hand and extends a handshake with the other. The moment the disaster lifted, they went back on everything. The Israelites were sent back to their chains. The deal was over and the performance of humility had served its purpose. A heart that has not genuinely changed does not suddenly become humble because circumstances got difficult. It becomes strategic and strategy dressed as humility is still arrogance, just in a more dangerous form. This is from Story Night: Pharaoh Shall Drown with Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan. Follow along at: https://byna.tv/324