Undoubtedly, traits such as anger, lust, greed, envy, obstinacy, bigotry, selfishness and alike make a person deaf and blind. The one who has insatiable desires is blind and deaf. Is it possible to doubt about this matter that one of the natural states of a human being is that he does not see his defect…
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Knowledge, which darkens the heart…
Knowledge, which darkens the heart and increases it in its blindness is not knowledge. A learning, which ultimately makes its possessor an heir of the Devil, woe unto such learning! Kibr [Pride & Arrogance] is the property of Satan’s nature. SOURCE: FORTY HADITH | IMAM KHOMEINI (R)