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Why Pride & Arrogance?

From the pre-2024 archive · original publication date not recovered · 1 min read · By Sameer Ahmed Khan
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From the archive. Written in an earlier era of this blog; the exact original publish date was lost in a platform migration.

I sense something disturbing growing in students these days , and that’s pride & arrogance. This arrogance will take you nowhere, constant taunts, silly bragging, will soon be avenged from Above. And once that lustrous dream of yours gets over, you’d find no friend by your side and you’ll be left alone.

Please, don’t look down on any student, weak or silly, dumb or stupid. Great leaders and innovators were humiliated too.

If you win any competition, don’t brag, don’t change yourself. Be as humble as possible, consider yourself to be a pious slave of Lord Above. The land you walk on, can be dragged away at any moment. I have seen many personalities destroyed.

And yes, if you still wish to compete, how about competing with the Western World in technology or even with your neighbors borders across. STOP making fun of those around you, I also saw few fresh wannabes mocking their University Professors. Ironic.

PS: I suggest you all to study Pride & Arrogance in Islam
Peace!

Sameer Ahmed Khan

Cofounder & CEO, Social Champ

Wrote my first line of code at the University of Karachi (1st in class). Built three failed startups (GameOChat, Educating Dreams, RemindZapp) before Social Champ, which now publishes tens of millions of posts every month across 100+ countries and was endorsed by Guy Kawasaki. Accelerated by Techstars Toronto '22. TEDx speaker, mentor at Founder Institute Toronto, four-time P@SHA ICT winner, APICTA award recipient. YouTube Silver Play Button for spearfishing vlogs. INFP. Pakistani. Karachi.

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