I used to feel constantly anxious. I was brought up by hypercritical parents who would comment on everything I do. So now I’m used to please others just so they won’t disapprove me and bring me down.
I try to instill confidence in myself, like saying, “Don’t care about what they think,” or, “You have to take care of yourself.”
But those do not work because I generally care about others - I don’t like being selfish. When I look at other confident people, they seem to be one thing in common. They think they’re better than everyone else. It seems arrogance does help to instill confidence, but I don’t like to develop my confidence from something so ugly.
I got my answer from understanding how humans are created according to the Quran.
We are all souls, a beautiful creation that has the ability to balance right and wrong before making a decision. Then our vessels are made from clay. Souls are sent into those temporary vessels to go through this test on Earth.
But before we were sent to Earth, Allah made all the angels to prostrate or do sajdah to us, to note the magnificence of our creation. The only person that refuse to is the devil named Iblis. He used to be a jinn who followed Allah’s orders, but had too much arrogance in himself - so he defied Allah order to acknowledge the magnificence creation of humans.
The devil hates us. He aims to kill our confidence, feel like we’re nothing and feel anxious all the time. He aims to put us down to make himself feel better.
Secondly, all the angels acknowledged how beautiful and magnificent our creation is. Remember that angels are made from light, they never fail to follow Allah’s orders and they are strong, beautiful creatures whose number of wings can vary and can reach up to 600 wings. But they acknowledge that humans have the ability to be better than them.
Allah and all the angels have confidence in us. They trust in our ability. They know our strengths and weaknesses since we were just a soul. They know how great we can be, how kind, how smart and so on.
The devils want to kill that confidence.
After I learn this perspective, I’ve never felt more calm, knowing the Lord of the Universe and his army of Angels celebrate my existence, trust in my capability and care about me. Indeed, Allah is both the All-Knowing and the Most-Wise.
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