Semantics of the Term "Confidence" in the Qur’an and Hadith

Abstract

The Confidence was a word that in the conflict with religion in terms of literal and psychological meaning. This study tried to get closer to the face of the Qur’an, using semantics concurrency method through which it analyzed the word confidence in the Qur’an and Hadith and analyzed conceptual relations with its substitutions, synonyms, and antonyms to find its semantic field and its surrounding concepts. It is found out that the confidence as a blessing from God means faith and reliance on your own real talents and abilities based on piety and trust in God, and this meaning this meaning exceeds beyond what the philologists and psychologists say. This study has adopted an analytical method.

Keywords

• confidence
• self-esteem
• dignity
• trust in god
• virtue
• poor soul
• arrogance