Imam Khomeini advised believers to refrain from self pride and glorification

Imam Khomeini advised to refrain from pride and self-glorification, since pride is God Almighty’s mantle, and one who contests with God regarding His cloak, God will shatter him and disgrace him on the Day of Resurrection.

ID: 77274 | Date: 2023/05/25
Imam explains the matter through his theological works as following


What will be the plight of the person whom God Almighty disgraces? For the things will be different in the Hereafter.


Disgrace in the Hereafter will be an affair different from the disgrace and humiliation in this world.


In the same way as the comforts and torments of that world bear no similarity with those in this world, and its comforts and bounties are beyond one’s imaginative power, the torments and tortures in that world are also far above the reach of our imaginative faculty.


Its honors are beyond the possibilities of what we can think, and its humiliations also cannot be compared with our ideas of humiliation and disgrace. And the ultimate abode of the proud person is eternal damnation and hell. The tradition states: