Ghurūr
Definition
Ghurur — self-delusion — is the comfortable but false belief that one's spiritual condition is better than it actually is: that one's vices are minor or absent, that one's virtues are genuine and substantial, and that one's relationship with Allah is secure. Al-Ghazali presents ghurur as the most dangerous of all spiritual diseases precisely because it is self-concealing: the other vices are at least in principle visible to honest self-examination, but ghurur is the disease that makes the examination itself impossible. The person of ghurur comes to muhasaba with a predetermination of what they will find — and reliably finds it.
As understood in the classical tradition of Imam al-Ghazali and the scholars of his school.
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