Al-Mutakabbir - The One Supreme in Pride and Greatness

Al-Mutakabbir is the one who considers everything base in comparison with his own essence. He does not consider majesty and glory to be the property of anyone other than himself. He looks upon others as the kings look upon their servants. If this evaluation is true, then this is pride in the purest sense of the word; and the one who makes it certainly is a proud person. That conclusion in an absolute sense is inconceivable of anyone except God Most High.

Al-Mutakabbir among men is the one who is abstemious and a “gnostic” (Al-ʿārif). The significance of the abstinence of the “gnostic” lies in the fact that he is free from created things which might occupy his heart. He considers himself above everything except the Truth Most High so that he becomes contemptuous of both this world and that which is to come. He is one who considers himself above being distracted by either of them from the Truth Most High.

The one who is enslaved by the appetite for food and marriage is contemptible.
However, Al-Mutakabbir is contemptuous of every appetite and portion in which the animal kingdom can conceivably share.