(March 30, 2018 at 3:17 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Humility is a great virtue, not to be confussed with self loathing of any sorts. Having self worth and self respect is not in conflict with the virtue of humility.
Self-loathing, for certain pious believers, is recommend by the traditions attributed to the household of Mohammad. Imam Ali in Nahjul balagha describing the pious says their hate for themselves is great.
That is different than humility, but the self-blaming soul can reach a state where it hates what it has become, but has compassion enough for itself to change and move forward.
To be distressed at the evil we have reached, is good, because it's the distressed ones of the people of evil that God has promised to remove the evil from.
