Page 67 - Commonly Disregarded Qur'anic Rulings

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 65

Jealousy is a reprehensible feeling arising from envy, inferi-
ority or bitterness that one does not possess a thing which
others have, cannot achieve success or does not receive the
appreciation and praise that others do. Man is prone to this

feeling, and any blessing (either material or spiritual) that
Allah grants to some of His servants may make it surface:
Or do they in fact envy other people for the bounty
Allah has granted them? We gave the family of
Abraham the Book and Wisdom, and We gave them
an immense kingdom.” (Surat an-Nisa’; 54)
As an essential part of the test they face in this world,
believers constantly struggle against this vice and try to puri-
fy themselves of it. When confronted with events that may
cause feelings of jealousy, a Muslim should display the proper
attitude and behavior instructed in the Qur’an, that is, to
know that everything belongs to Allah alone, that everything
occurs by His will, that Allah chooses whom He wills, that He
grants whatever He wills, and that the decision rests with Him

alone. Allah creates everything with a good and Divine pur-
pose. Each blessing is given merely to test man in this world,
and his real abode is that of the Hereafter. That is why believ-
ers always act in fear of Allah.
Jealousy, pride and arrogance result in ignorantly consider-
ing oneself equal to Allah (Allah is surely beyond that).Thus,
they are classical attributes of satan, whose revolt against Allah
was due to his arrogance and envy of the Prophet Adam (as).
This attribute is evident in the attitudes of unbelievers
and hypocrites who follow in satan’s footsteps. The jealousy