Eradicate The Baseness of Pride From The Heart

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‘Abu Hashem’ the Sufi has said: – “It is easier to dig up a mountain from the root with the point of a needle, than to eradicate the baseness of pride from the heart:-

Verses:

Boast not of having no pride, because it is more invisible Than the mark of an ant’s foot on a black rock in a dark night;

Think it not easy to extirpate it from thy heart

For, it is more easy to root up a mountain from the earth with a needle,

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