The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 362
362. Essence of Islām II. The true progeny of Adam are the humble. . O worm of this earth! Give up arrogance and pride;. For pride becomes the Glorious Lord alone. . Consider yourselves as worse than all;. Maybe this will help you enter the court of the Lord. God. . Give up pride and arrogance, because therein alone lies righteousness;. Be humble as dust: therein lies the pleasure of the Lord. . The root of righteousness is humility for the sake of. God;. Virtue, which is the condition of faith, lies entirely in. Taqwa (righteousness). [Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya, Part V, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 21, p. 18]