Sadullah Khan – Developing a Qur’anic Personality To be and What not be. #17
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The speaker discusses the negative emotions that come with envy, including feelings of superiority and desire for destruction. They also describe a person who experienced envy and was warned by a church member to not be envious of others. The speaker warns that envy is a deadly disease that can damage spiritual well-being and has the capacity to nullify good deeds.
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Developing the Quran personality
to be and what not to be.
Our beloved prophet Muhammad
said in the hadith,
2 things are never combined never combined
within a believer. 2 things I never combine
in a believer,
faith
and envy.
They are almost an antithesis to one another.
We have iman and to be jealous doesn't
gel.
Envy or jealousy
is one of the most negative emotions
that a person may have or hold towards
a fellow human being.
It is a state of misery
that often arises from low self esteem.
The lower a person's self esteem,
the greater it seems the scope for envy.
And envy is fueled
by a feeling of inferiority
and it's coupled with a vengeful desire
for the destruction,
the disadvantage
of other people.
The one who envies the envier
wishes the downfall of others,
and often delights when other people fail and
do not succeed.
It is reported that Luqman Al Hakim,
Luqman the wise, referred to in the Quran
and one of the chapters.
He said,
There are three signs
of an
The envious,
he backbites you in your absence.
He flatters you in your presence,
and he delights in your misfortune
and in your problems.
Back by tune your absence,
flatters you in your presence,
and delights in your misfortune.
I would have an incident
in the life of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Anas bin Malik radiAllahu anhu grew up in
the house of Rasulullah.
He He said one day we were sitting
with Rasulullah
in the masjid,
as documented
in numerous hadith,
and he
said, I saw
a person
who was about to come in in the
Rasulullah
They will enter now a person from the
people of paradise,
and lo and behold a person entered. Not
a well known person, and the description in
the hadith by people
is that he came in disheveled hair, his
beard was wet with a wudu. He carried
his
sandals in his left hand, walking in.
He looked very ordinary.
So one of the companions, Abdullah ibn Amr,
he looked at this is This is the
man of genuine that Rasool focused attention.
And then he said, I observe Abdul Abdul
Abdul, I observe this man.
And then after salah, I went up to
him. After he prayed, I went to him
and said, I have some problems at home.
It okay if I live with you for
a day or 2? I said, sure. You
can come to my home. He said, I
went to the man's home, and I lived
with you for a day or 2.
Very nice man, very pleasant, very friendly,
but nothing extraordinary. He prayed the normal prayer,
made a sharp, made some wicker to sleep,
ate up fajab. Nothing extraordinary.
And then after a day or 2, I
said to him, thank you very much, you
know. But to be honest with you, I
didn't actually have any problems. I just wanted
to observe you because of what Rasulullah
said. So what did Rasulullah say? He said,
Rasulullah said that you are one of the
people of Jannah, and I was wondering why
are you singled out by the Rasul like
that?
So the man said,
I am as we have seen. There's nothing
more to it, nothing less.
But,
He said, I have I am as you
have seen me.
One thing though,
I never deceitful,
dishonest
to any person.
I try my best not to be deceptive
or dishonest to anyone,
and I do not carry any envy or
jealousy towards anyone for what Allah may have
given them. You see,
that's the only thing about the man who's
special.
And he was of those who adhered strictly
to the prophetic instruction.
Do not be envious of one another.
You see, envy
is certainly one of the deadliest diseases of
the heart. One of the deadliest diseases of
the
heart. And not only that, it produces additional
vices. It doesn't go by itself. The one
who's envious, he conscious of other things. Backbiting,
lying,
spreading rumors, hatred.
It is an envious. Envious. Okay. Envious. Not
that. Like a thief steals and he runs.
No. No. There's more to it.
Backbiting, lying, spreading rumors, hatred,
all of which by themselves
are fatal to our spiritual well-being. Each one
of these
are bad and detrimental to our spiritual well-being,
and these are all offshoots from Hasid.
So envy is incompatible
with true faith.
And not only that,
it has the capacity
to nullify your good deeds.
It has the capacity
to nullify your good deeds. Hadith documented
I warn you regarding envy. That's what he'll
say. I warn you regarding envy because envy
devours, consumes
your good deeds
like fire burns
dry wood.
So this envy is so spiritually destructive.
It's so psychologically
detrimental.
It's an emotional disease
that is so damaging
that Allah himself in the holy Quran
teaches us to turn to
him and seek his protection against envy.
We seek refuge
in Allah,
and it ends with
I seek refuge in Allah from the evil
of the envy of the envy as well.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant that we
not be of those who are jealous.
And may Allah protect us from the envy
of the enemies.