Modern psychology has profoundly shaped how we understand ourselves. We explain our emotions through trauma, our behaviours through conditioning, and our struggles through mental health. But is this the only way to understand what it means to be human? This article explores how psychology reframed the human person, contrasts it with the Islamic understanding of the soul, and asks whether Muslims have unknowingly adopted a worldview that leaves little room for God.

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The capitalist modernist undertone is most glaringly obvious in its selling point - ‘no God’.As in true secular capitalist fashion, ‘the self’ has taken on that role. The self is in charge, it decides which parts of spiritual philosophy are followed and when, it decides what is right and wrong and so in essence it is what is being worshipped; it has taken on the role of God. Since people turn to spirituality to gain a sense of self-worth and acceptance, the capitalist narrative plays on this emotion by placing the gratification and exploration of the self as a core concept.