What is the ruling on one who is too proud to work?
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The questioner : Guidance is the guidance of knowledge and the guidance of action. If a person is too proud to act, knowing the matter but being too proud to act?
The Shaykh : If being too proud to act indicates disbelief according to the Qur'an or the Sunnah, then he is a disbeliever, like one who does not pray, for example.
The questioner : Do we say that he has a characteristic of the Jews because he was too proud to act and was obstinate?
The Shaykh : You are mistaken, you are mistaken. We say that he has a characteristic of Iblis, which is more severe.
Yes.
The Shaykh : If being too proud to act indicates disbelief according to the Qur'an or the Sunnah, then he is a disbeliever, like one who does not pray, for example.
The questioner : Do we say that he has a characteristic of the Jews because he was too proud to act and was obstinate?
The Shaykh : You are mistaken, you are mistaken. We say that he has a characteristic of Iblis, which is more severe.
Yes.