Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #11 Jealousy
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The speaker discusses the importance of protecting oneself from negative emotions and feelings when facing challenges, such as jealousy or envy. They emphasize the need to be careful with one's behavior and not try to struggle with one's own self. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of letting people know their love and the fragile nature of life.
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When we read the Quran, there is
one emotion or one sentiment
that is negative per se, and we have
to struggle. We have to fight. We have
to strive
to go beyond it and to master it.
And this is the one that we all
know is jealousy.
Jealousy is,
a feeling
which is very subtle, and we need to
get the right understanding.
When, for example, you have somebody who has
something, for example,
wealth
or qualities or intelligence or brain or beauty,
the fact that you are looking at it
and you can you can,
like it and envy what he or she
has, it's not per se negative. It depends
what you are going to do with it.
If you hope for him to lose it,
this is the negative,
emotion, and this is jealousy.
If you are trying to understand that you
can compete
and try to get it,
through your own work, this could be very
positive.
But what we have to protect ourselves
from, it's this envy, this, very negative feeling
that,
that we we want the worst with,
for the other and not to try to
master your emotion and at the same time
to come and to try to be better.
These are important teachings, and the prophet, peace
be upon him, was
saying, he said, be careful be careful with
jealousy
because this is a very negative,
a very negative,
feeling.
Why do we have to be? Because
jealousy is eating
all your good actions,
everything which which is good in yourself,
eating it as
the fire
is eating,
the wood. So this is a relationship where
it's a it's a distraction.
It's a spiritual distraction if you nurture towards
the the people,
something which is negative.
The starting point of everything
is just to remember that Allah created the
universe and created us, and some are high
and other are down. Some have and others
don't. And then
what we need to understand with the people
who can be intelligence and others who are
less intelligence,
this is.
So
it's,
the way Allah created the
world. So accepting this is the starting point
of saying, okay. If now I have less,
should
I desire for him or her to have
less or try to struggle with my own
self to try to get more and to
try to reach and to try to improve.
This is life. So it's a competition for
the good, not an emotion for the bad,
which is completely
the opposite.
Our spiritual journey, it's to hope for the
people
to be good with what they have and
with what we don't have to try to
struggle to get it. It could be intellectual.
It could be social. It could be cultural,
whatever.
At the end, this is a struggle for
the best avoiding the negative emotions and jealousy.
It's a negative one.
Remember to tell the people you love that
you love them. Life is fragile.