Today, let's pretend I'm your favourite rap artist… life coach.
We're going to have a short session on jealousy and how it can be healthy.
Jealousy in its original form is ugly. It is vile. It is disgraceful. No Muslim should ever be caught in its throes except it is jealousy of certain acts of worship.
We have a perfect advice in form of a Hadith. “There is no envy but in two cases: a man whom Allah has given wealth and he spends it rightly, and a man whom Allah has given wisdom and he judges and teaches with it.” 1
Allah has taught us all we need via his perfect religion of Islam and we just need to use it.
Basically, the lesson from this is: Let your jealousy of these people motivate you to try harder to reach their positions.
Look to those better than you at being good and doing good deeds and look to those doing worse than you financially and your mind should be healthy and balanced, bi idhnillah.
Abdullah ibn Mas’ud reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “There is no envy but in two cases: a man whom Allah has given wealth and he spends it rightly, and a man whom Allah has given wisdom and he judges and teaches with it.”
Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 73, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 816
Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi (authenticity agreed upon) according to Al-Bukhari and Muslim
عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَا حَسَدَ إِلَّا فِي اثْنَتَيْنِ رَجُلٌ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ مَالًا فَسُلِّطَ عَلَى هَلَكَتِهِ فِي الْحَقِّ وَرَجُلٌ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ الْحِكْمَةَ فَهُوَ يَقْضِي بِهَا وَيُعَلِّمُهَا
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