Sadullah Khan – Developing a Qur’anic Personality To be and What not be. #17

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.