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Kufr-i Nafs Since, as the hadith has it, "the nafs is the greatest idol," this is the infidelity that worships one's selfish desire as if it were a god. "We are all, ourselves, prisoners of this infidelity," inasmuch as we are all still in the dualistic realm of time and space. In addition, this infidelity includes the egotism of those wayfarers who have reached a stage where they think they have attained the Creator Himself. Everyday there are a hundred thousand such who halt in this infidelity. Kufr-i nafs is therefore the special province of Iblis, who deludes the wayfarers, for, as Hasan al-Basri said, "if he (Iblis) manifested his light to creation, he would be worshipped as a god." This is in fact of the same order as worshipping one's own ego.