Jealousy in Islam

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Hasad - Diseases of the heart The disease of the heart that we would be expanding on more today, is what we call in the Arabic language as 'hasad'. But there is a difference between these two words: 'jealousy' and 'envy'. 'Jealousy' is when you have something and you fear losing it to someone else. This is what it means to be 'jealous'. And 'envy' is when you see something that someone else has and you desire it from them. So 'jealousy' is you already have something and you fear losing it. 'Envy' is when you don't have that object and you actually want to attain it. Allāh (subḥānahu wa ta'āla) first talks about 'hasad' in the Qur'an when it comes to Adam and Iblis. It is one of the clearest examples of 'hasad' that Allāh (subḥānahu wa ta'āla) mentions in the Qur'an and is one of the first sins that the children of Adam (alayhis salaam) first committed. And that was the sin of jealousy. Allāh (subḥānahu wa ta'āla) mentions in Surah Al-'Araaf, the story of two of the children of Adam; both of them who have given sacrifices to Allāh (subḥānahu wa ta'āla), from one of them Allāh (subḥānahu wa ta'āla) accepted it and from the other He did not. The latter became jealous of the former and... 'hasad' has two connotations; one which is positive and one which is negative. And that is why they say that hasad is actually of two types. The first type of hasad is that which is pure hatred and animosity. This is pure negativity that you see a blessing in an individual, a blessing that another person has and you just want it removed from them. To want anyone deprived of the blessings of Allāh (subḥānahu wa ta'āla) is absolutely haraam. It is not permissible. At this point, scholars usually differ if this type of jealousy is just a major sin or a minor sin? so it comes to the conclusion that it actually depends upon the state of the heart. Sometimes it naturally happens
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