Once, a seeker asked the Sufi master:
"What is the ultimate humility?"
The master smiled and said: "It is when you walk out of your house…and see everyone you meet as better than you."
The seeker thought,
“Even the sinful? The drunkard? The angry merchant?”
But the master replied:
“The moment you judge, your ego is speaking.
True humility is not thinking less of yourself—
it is not thinking of yourself at all.”
So the seeker began his practice.
He looked at a beggar and whispered:
"He has endured what I never could."
He saw a merchant and thought:
"Maybe he feeds orphans in secret."
He passed a drunk and wondered:
"Perhaps he cries out to God more sincerely than I ever have."
And slowly, the veils fell.
Pride faded.
And in every face, he saw the Beloved.
Now when people ask him,
"What is the highest station a seeker can reach?"
He smiles and says:
"To walk out of your house…
and see everyone as better than you."
