Self Awareness Part ‘1’ (Raising our EQ Series)

A new topic within the psychology side of “The Stronger Momin” is starting called

“ Raising Our EQ series”.

In this series of articles, we will discuss the basics of emotional intelligence in a friendly and easy-to-understand way.

We will know how raising EQ is important to make our lives easier, more comfortable, and more successful.

We are going to find out how it is defined in our sources of guidance, ie The Quran and The Sunnah of Muhammad ﷺ.

Self-awareness is gaining awareness about myself. Let’s begin this amazing journey of meeting myself with ﷽

Self-awareness is the first step in understanding emotional intelligence and all smart dealings in life.

What is that: knowing myself,

Being aware of who I am?

What I feel at any specific time and matter.

How I feel around certain people and certain conditions.

Knowledge of how I react to certain circumstances and specific people’s behaviours.

And how to be better?

The positive effects of knowing myself are not limited to myself. This is the simple answer to the thought that comes to mind that self-awareness may be something leading to self-centredness or self-obsession. That is not true for sure. Self-awareness is a journey of knowledge that brings satisfaction, leading to a contented individual and structuring a happy, well-communicating, and more balanced society in the long run.

So, the story of my dear self does not begin here; it originates from my Creator, my ever-present Rab. Every beautiful creation is recognised and known by the creator before it is seen and felt by anyone else.

Who knows better about the creation than the One who has created? We often underestimate how deeply ALLAH knows us. ALLAH said in the Quran about His knowledge of what is even more hidden than a secret. Did we notice? How deep?

It is absolutely the same for ALLAH subhanahu wa ta’ala that we are loud in the talk, we are whispering, or we just think it deeper in our mind’s corner. How close He is to us. And why not? It will be. The soul that our body carries belongs solely to Allah. He understands us more clearly, without confusion, than we understand ourselves.

Knowing that ALLAH knows everything about us in depth is important in the journey of knowing the self. How is it related? The matter is totally relatable. Once again, our beloved book helps us in understanding this equation.

So, forgetting ALLAH will make us forget ourselves. (May ALLAH never make us among those, aameen)

Going far from ALLAH will make us distant from our own souls.

Knowing ALLAH more, remembering Him, and going closer to Him will make us ……

closer to our own selves. That will make us more aware of ourselves.

Is it not the same we are looking for?