Ismail Kamdar – This incorrect attitude is killing your confidence

			Salam alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala rasulillah. Welcome to
Islamic Self Help channel. And today I want to reflect on another point for my book on self
confidence, best of creation and Islamic guide to self confidence. I wrote this book because most of
the secular resources on self confidence, they include some principles which contradict the
teachings of Islam. And so I build a framework for building one self confidence that is based on the
teachings of Islam. And in this book, I address many topics, some of which are Islamic beliefs,
which we can take and apply to build our confidence. Some of them is
		

			general practices or principles that we can apply. But there's a section on the focus on today, and
that is some wrong attitudes or beliefs that we have that are affecting our confidence. And I'll
just talk about one in particular that is very common amongst the Muslims, right. And this is the
idea of, of a defeatist attitude. You see this amongst many Muslims, right? When you tell them to do
a project to the to do some work for benefiting the Ummah, to excel in the field that they've gotten
into, they have a defeatist attitude, they have this thing like, Oh, it's the end of times money
will come and sorted our problems. There's nothing we can do. We not like the Sahaba we not like
		

			early Muslims, we not good enough, you know, let's just sit around and wait for the money to come
and solve everything. This defeatist attitude is completely an Islamic, it destroys all of your self
confidence, that's for sure you're not going to get anything done, you're not going to get into any
project, if you have this kind of attitude. But it's also an Islamic because the Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu Sallam stated that if you were about to plant a tree, and the world was ending, go ahead
and plant it. Meaning, it doesn't matter if it's the end of time, if you doing something good. Just
get it done. You know, our religion does not revolve around doom and gloom. We don't have this end
		

			of this world ideology that, you know, as you get closer to the end of time, then people get worse
and worse, if you should just give up No, rather, these are the sushi prophets like some stating
that, you know, amongst his oma, he does not know whether the first of them or the last of them will
be the best. Right? And he prays Muslims that will come towards the end of time he called him his
brothers. And he praised the man being able to hold on to the Islam during difficult times when
people are leaving the religion. So there is a lot of good in this oma, this idea that we are not as
good as the Sahaba should we shouldn't even try. This is this is not an Islamic idea. Yes, we are
		

			not as good as the Sahaba in terms of our virtues and righteousness. This doesn't mean we shouldn't
try. This doesn't mean we should not work out with this. This doesn't mean we should not set goals
and work hard. Rather, in every generation of lots of creative people who will excel and benefit
this woman. Our job is to try and be part of those people, not part of those people who just sit
around complaining and making excuses. So this is the wrong belief that exists in the oma that is
killing our self confidence. We need to get rid of this belief. Our job is not to sit around waiting
for the money. Our job is to find things that benefit this woman in a pleasing Allah subhanho wa
		

			Taala and to commit to doing these things to convert our lives to making these things work.
		

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