Inferiority Complex

1. Feeling lesser and lowly regarding one’s good deeds. This is a necessary feeling to have.

2. Feeling lesser and lowly regarding worldly issues. This has no good in it.

Prophet ꜤĪsā عَلَیْہِ السَّلَام and his disinterest towards the world

Mawlana Ilyas Attar al-Qadiri دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـهْ continued by saying:

Prophet ꜤĪsā عَلَیْہِ السَّلَام once owned a bowl, but eventually decided to not keep it with him. “This is the wealth of this world”, he said, “and I do not want this. I will drink water with my hands.” ^{^[1]}

He saw the wealth of others but did not desire to become wealthy himself. He even gave away what he had in his possession (the bowl). Likewise, there are many pious elders who did not keep anything with them as belongings. Whatever they received was distributed to the poor immediately. Even my master, the final Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم would not save anything for a later time. Saints would eat and give whatever was left as charity with no apparent source of food for their next meal. This is how the pious people of Allah trusted and relied upon Him.

If only we were to acquire the water that came into contact with the feet of these sacred and pious personalities, then we too would acquire a rank in the court of Allah.

اٰمِیْن بِجَاہِ النَّبِیِّ الْاَمِیْن صلَّی اللہ عَلَیْہِ واٰلہٖ وسلَّم

3 ways to save yourself from feeling inferior

O those who love Allah’s Messenger! Mental health experts consider inferiority complexes to be feelings or emotions, rather than something

[1] Qūt al-Qulūb, vol. 1, p. 22

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