Our worthiness before Allah is something that should make us humble. Allah gives human beings such a high position and we better put that to work and live up to it. We have to step up.
On one hand we value ourselves but actually we are supposed to value the ability to make the effort that Allah gave us, not the things that Allah gave us. The things that Allah gave us, He can give to somebody else and the things can come and go. The thing of value before Allah and before ourselves is just our efforts. Human beings will have nothing of worth on the Day of Judgment except the effort that they made.
وَأَن لَّيْسَ لِلْإِنسَٰنِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَىٰ ﴿٣٩﴾
And that there is not for human beings except that [good] for which he strives
[Quran, anNajm 53:39]
One of the most amazing qualities that Allah put inside us is the spiritual and material qualities. There is this confidence and there is humility. They both coexist and we have to strike a balance. Too much self worth or confidence will turn into arrogance and too much humility will make you think "I am nobody."
In the Quran Allah mentions the three components of our creation -- dirt, ruh (spirit) and in between them, balance. Our entire life is supposed to be a struggle to find that balance, to find that real worth in ourselves, so that we are not looking forward in other people, in things, posts, engagement or followers. We are not looking for worth in the clothes we are wearing, in the car we drive. In the house we live in, but we are looking for worth in what we give to Allah.
May Allah enable us to find that balance in a way pleasing to Him. Aameen.
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