One of the remedies for arrogance is to think of yourself as being just like other people and realise that they are like you, they were born from a mother and a father just as you were, and that Taqwa is the true criterion of superiority. The arrogant Muslim should realise that no matter what he achieves, he is still too weak to attain a stature like the mountains in height or rend nor penetrate the earth. Another remedy for arrogance is for a person to realise that on the Day of Resurrection he will be gathered in a small form like an ant which will be trampled underfoot. Another remedy is to remember that he and urine came out of the same place; that he began as a despised drop of sperm and he will end up as a rotten corpse, and that in between he is a vessel for faeces.

Waswas comes from three sources: the nafs (or self), which is inclined to evil, the devils among the jinn (demons), and the devils among mankind.