Ways of strengthening Faith:

 Sometimes it’s natural, during hardships and calamities, to get swept by the affliction of the moment. During such trial of faith, unless you are careful, shaytan (evil) can inject fear and plant doubts in your heart and mind. Your beliefs in such vulnerable states may become overpowered by feeling of the moment resulting in the dwindling of your faith. You may start questioning the fairness and wisdom underlying some divine decisions while others may get mired in a blame game. You may find yourself lost, helpless, and stalled finding it difficult to gather your energy and move forward.

For such situations, you should stay in control; by hanging on to the power of your faith. Only strong faith can help you cope with highly critical challenges. The strength of faith does not come automatically but you will have to do something consciously to strengthen your faith. Following are the some suggestions to develop and increase the strength of faith.

As human beings, no doubt, we are conscious and intelligent beings, but that is not enough for our success in all situations. Many a times in life we feel that we are in need of Higher Power than our own. Faith in such Higher Power gives you confidence and strengthens your ability to face challenges in life. Also in some highly emotional moments you experience Divinity in yourselves. Those are the moments of your profound personal divine experience. Noticing such experience can also strengthen your divine faith.

Faith is reinforced when it is properly fed. You can feed your faith with positive testimonies of other people. When your heart or read the positive results that the other faithful have received and contributed, you get motivated. If there are no people around you who are in the habit of testifying, read books and other materials. There are numerous books that can help you feed your faith. The most effected, of course, is the Holy Quran. This is the book of faith, guidance, and wisdom. You can also read other holy scriptures and the books written by successful, qualified, and experienced people. Biographies are considered good source of inspiration. However, you should be careful while selecting reading material. Books can do wonder of your faith but not all pf them.

Upgrade your faith from the level of traditional discipline and rituals to the level of rational investigation followed by personal spiritual experience. It can be done by challenging the claimed truths logically and rationally and answering the doubts and delusions that come to mind. If you upgrade your beliefs from imitation to rational level flowered by your personal experience, it will be out of question for you to lose your faith in critical moments and to die without the belief in the last breath. One should not be afraid of questioning his own traditional beliefs and paradigm. Critical thinking helps you to identify the strength and the weakness of a traditional belief system. It is evident that those who had the opportunity to struggle with tough questions regarding their paradigm and perception especially during academic life seemed to have a healthier faith in practical life. Applying the scientific methods of enquiry helps you upgrade you beliefs from traditional to sense-perception level. Logical investigation gives you the intellectual justification to your stereotypes and personal experience converts your belief into faith.

Man is known by the company he keeps. The company of highly, faithful, and truthful people can helps you to improve your own faith and character

  

Allah says in Holy Quran:

“O you who believe! Be afraid of Allah, and be with those who are true”

Reflection is also a good way of strengthening faith. It cleans off grime and tries to discover the truth – truth that manifest divine nature. And is connected to higher dimensions in the universe reflection transform experience into wisdom and wisdom into faith. It foster a sense of deeper awareness and consciousness.