Allah says
وَمِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ مَن يَشۡتَرِي لَهۡوَ ٱلۡحَدِيثِ لِيُضِلَّ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ بِغَيۡرِ عِلۡمٖ وَيَتَّخِذَهَا هُزُوًاۚ أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ لَهُمۡ عَذَابٞ مُّهِينٞ (6) وَإِذَا تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَيۡهِ ءَايَٰتُنَا وَلَّىٰ مُسۡتَكۡبِرٗا كَأَن لَّمۡ يَسۡمَعۡهَا كَأَنَّ فِيٓ أُذُنَيۡهِ وَقۡرٗاۖ فَبَشِّرۡهُ بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ (
And among the people is he who distorts idle talk in order to stray from the path of God without knowledge, and he takes it in jest; for them is a humiliating punishment (6) and when Our verses were recited to him, he turned away arrogantly, as if he had not heard them, It was as if he was deaf in his ears, So give him good tidings of a painful punishment.
The explanation of the verses
Among the people are those who buy the entertainment of conversation
The Lord, Blessed and Most High, tells us that some people buy with their money reasons to distract people. At the beginning of the message was a man called (Al-Nadr bin Al-Harith bin Kalda) He was sitting in the place where new Muslims go to the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - to hear from him the news of the new religion and what was revealed from the Qur’an, He would block their way and say, “I brought you news of Persia and news of the civilizations and myths that are near you, and you are aware that adults are fond of stories more than children, Because it is news of civilizations around the Arabian Peninsula that is devoid of the true civilization before Islam, the news of civilizations (around the Arabian Peninsula) It is considered the news of kings and celebrities, and you are aware that some people are fond of their news. so, verses were revealed about him to inform about this type of personality.
To stray from the path of God without knowledge
This is the main reason, but without knowledge, as he has no real knowledge that attracts people to him, not from previous books or even books about earthly religions, It is just a distraction for people who do not know their goal, nor is it the fact that the mind takes 47 seconds of distraction every hour, and we believe that some people with low goals take more than that in some cases, so, he struck a chord that everyone loves, especially since they are illiterate and cannot read or write.
And he takes it as mockers. he will have a humiliating torment
That is, the verses of God - the Almighty - and you are aware that whoever ridicules you in something you do makes you think: Am I in the truth or is what he actually says about me the truth, that is, it makes you think about your goal, So God - glory be to Him - concluded the noble verse by declaring for this type of people (a humiliating torment). Why? Because he wants glory by having people gather around him and abandon Muhammad - may God bless him and grant him peace - Alone, without people to listen to the Qur’an, the punishment was the opposite of what he had hoped for. The punishment was humiliation instead of honor, and God, of course, knows what he intended.
And when Our verses were recited to him, he turned away arrogant.
And if someone tries to convey the verses of God to him - the true stories based on divine knowledge - he refuses and turns his back on them with arrogance, as if he had not heard them, as if his ears were deaf, ...and that was the end of the verses, so give him good tidings of a painful torment. Finish the interpretation of the verses and move on to psychology, then the commentary.
The psychology
The real reason why we have distractaction?
Psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert found that the human mind is actually wired for this state of continuous distraction. In a study conducted with 2,250 adults, they concluded that we spend around 47 percent of every waking hour "mind wandering." Also called "stimulus-independent thought," mind wandering is an experience that so ordinary, so natural to us, we don't even notice it.
The power motives and narcissism behind the arrogant people
Who is an arrogant person?
Arrogance can be defined as the personality trait whereby a person has an obnoxiously elevated sense of self-worth. An arrogant person is the one who acts as if they’re superior, more worthy, and more important than others. Therefore, they tend to disrespect and put others down. at the same time, they want admiration and respect from others. They want to be appreciated for the great things they’ve done and for their special qualities and abilities.
Reasons behind arrogance
1) You’ve done great things
In many cases, a person becomes arrogant when they achieve things their peers couldn’t achieve. Doing something extraordinary that no one else could do gives a tremendous boost to your self-worth.
2) You’ve done nothing great in life
Just as doing something remarkable may lead to arrogance, so can not doing anything remarkable. I’m sure you must have heard this phrase before: “He’s achieved nothing. What is he so arrogant about?” This shows that many people who’re arrogant are also under-achievers.
3) Arrogance as a defence mechanism
Another common reason behind arrogance is that you’re trying to protect your ego and self-worth. You may behave arrogantly to hide your insecurity, inferiority, and a lack of confidence.
4) You want attention
Despite what meets the eye, arrogant people care a lot about others’ approval. If they didn’t, whom would they show their arrogance to? Sometimes, arrogance may result from trying to gain attention because no other way of gaining attention has worked for you.
The comments
1 - We have seen from psychology that people are in a state of natural mental distraction for 47 seconds out of every hour. If they are actually distracted by something major, they will be distracted even more than that, which is what God Almighty does not like, Sorry, like movies and series, especially in Ramadan, they are a kind of distraction for people from the month of the Qur’an (the Qur’an and its contemplation) in its specific month and of course otherwise, It is assumed that a person in life has a purpose and a goal greater than wasting his time on empty distractions that do not teach him or educate him, do not improve the quality of his life, or bring him closer to God - glory be to Him – rather the true culture is what you work with, write, and learn, not what you hear and forget, if there is culture in films and series at all.
2 - The nature of the person who distracts people: Look at him closely: God Almighty tells us that he will be like the personality of Al-Nadhar ibn Al-Harith. See if he is arrogant, and if so: Did he do a great job because of which he became arrogant? Or if he has no great deeds, then he is arrogant to cover up his low self - steam and lack of respect for himself with arrogance.
3 - God - glory be to Him - mentioned in the noble verse that distracting people from a great goal with trivial, useless distractions is linked to arrogance. Does this, according to psychologists, have a connection... This is what we do not know.
4 We are not against purposeful art that pushes forward and teaches me something new and valuable in life and does not make me feel that all of life is disappointment, lack of origin, and betrayal by the people closest to me, even if life is actually like that, we support the good so that its circle expands, and we do not show the bad so that it is not imitated. I have not seen, for example, in the drama: There is a man or woman who treated his mother or father in their old age with lofty morals, He had special care for them due to their old age and weakness, and after they died and he sacrificed part of his time for them, happiness and the doors of goodness were wide open throughout the rest of his life...
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