physically tangible. Anyone who suffers with this usually has three psychological issues, or even one or two of them. These are ungratefulness, aimlessness and vain hopes.

1. Become grateful

Those with inferiority complexes often think negatively about themselves to some degree. They feel as though they have been given nothing, and their destiny is full of nothing but deprivation. This is not the case at all. Allah has granted everyone bounties, blessings and favours. There is no person in the world who has not been given a countless number of these. Even if someone is blind, physically disabled or poor, they still always have thousands of bounties with them.

Allah states in the Quran:

وَ اِنۡ تَعُدُّوۡا نِعۡمَۃَ اللّٰہِ لَا تُحۡصُوۡہَا ؕ

Translation from Kanz al-Īmān: “And if you count the favours of Allah, you will therefore never be able to count them.”^[1]

Think long and hard about this verse, which explains the reality of our situation. Allah has granted us so many bounties and favours that we are unable to count them even if we tried. Your hands are a bounty from Allah, and so is your head, brain, body, heart, lungs, liver, stomach and everything else. Counting all these is one thing; we don’t even know the names of many bounties we have been granted! Look at the physiological system of our bodies, and how many organs our body uses all the time. We do not even know the names of many bounties that exist within us. These are all granted to us by none other than Allah.