One of the greatest psychic faults of our age is arrogance. In order to understand the place of arrogance in our social life, we need to understand what arrogance means to us as a concept. Arrogance means to be arrogant, to claim greatness, to humiliate others by seeing oneself higher than others. Arrogance, as defined by our Prophet, means not consenting to the truth and belittling people. The place of arrogance in human psychology is realized as follows, with the determination of Imam Ghazali. In order for a person to be mutebbir, he has to allocate a position to himself, to assign another to another, and to consider his position superior to that of another.
As it can be understood from these definitions and explanations, the source of arrogance is based on Iblis. In the story of creation, we can see that the biggest reason for Iblis's disobedience to the order to prostrate is in his arrogance. Iblis appointed a position for himself and by placing this position above Adam's (r.a.) position, he assumed that he was superior. Just like that, we come across this kind of comparison style in every page of history. Pharaoh and Nimrod saw themselves above their tribes. Likewise, one of the reasons why the leaders of the Quraysh did not believe was that the prophethood came to an orphan and an orphan, not to great people like them. When we continue to wrap history this way, we can attribute the main reason for Western colonialism to their arrogance. We also need to arrogantly explain the emotional motivation underlying the idea of nationalism.
We can see many different reflections of arrogance in social life. For example, those who are arrogant from people who own property and property, forget that they are the trustees of these goods, and take ownership of the world. Rather than prioritizing the rights of others, they aim to multiply their own wealth. The arrogance of people we can call intellectuals leads to the conclusion that they absolutize their own knowledge and culture. They cannot leave their own world because they do not respect other knowledge and cultures. Since they cannot mingle with the public, they belittle them and see them as ignorant. Since he considers it his duty to train them, he prefers to decide and implement them on their behalf. As a result, we come across a Jacobin intellectual type.
We witness that arrogance is experienced in the darkest form in political life. There is arrogance arising from the power of politicians in the state apparatus or the attractive reputation of politics in the eyes of the public. The different perception in the eyes of the public causes the person to tire the ingenuity on himself and to position himself above the public. The door of politics to arrogance is not just that. The main thing to focus on is arrogance, absolute truth, which every political understanding is related to itself.
Whoever absolutizes their own worldview, their own ideological fight, their own program and their own political spectrum is walking around in the folds of political arrogance. Of course, every movement is/should be centered on its own truths. However, an understanding that absolutizes these truths, ignores views other than itself, even considers it objectionable, and therefore throws all those who have these views out of the circle of goodness, needs to question itself. This is not just a case that takes place between different political views. We see that even different forms of explanation within the same political movement bump into these walls of arrogance. This wavering of arrogance in politics enlarges evil and hatred, while narrowing goodness and love. If the real thing is the truth, it should not be forgotten that this is a search. Whoever embraces the truth means that this search has come to an end. This leads people to the path to the folds of arrogance.