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Humility, Self-Naughting, and Self-Transcendence

Humility November 24, 2025 Atif Khalil

Abstract Muslims understand humility (Arabic: khushu‘/tawadu‘) to be inseparable from the servitude to God (‘ubudiyya) that is demanded of them by their faith. The defining place of the virtue in Islamic ethics is underscored by the fact that the sin of the two archetypes of wrongdoing in the Quran––Pharoah and Iblis (Satan)––was pride. With that said, humility can be conceived in two...