Here are a few things that we can try out to help us fight envy.

1. Make dua immediately, the moment you feel it.
Just pray to Allah to protect you from Shaytan’s attacks, remove the envy from your heart, to bless the other
person in what He’s given them, and to give you more and better.

2. Transfer the focus towards your own self.
Hunt for the source of the envy. Ask
yourself searching questions, and give honest answers. Am I discontent with what Allah has given me? Do I want more? Am I angry with Allah for preferring the other person with the thing that I covet?
Or am I angry with the person who caused me pain? Once you find out where the problem lies, make more specific duas,
and read on your specific problem. If possible, talk to a Muslim counselor about it to get a better insight into your heart.

3. Use self-hypnotherapy.
The envy is not a part of you. Imagine it to be an entity in itself, an enemy – a poisonous, green, scaly snake that’s wrapped itself round your heart and trying
to squeeze it to suffocation. Now you’ll find it much easier and satisfactory to kill it as soon as possible.

4. Remove the negative filter
from your eyes.
Yes, the envious feeling is a proof that such a filter exists, that it filters out all the positive things that happen in your life and leaves a grimy, foul-smelling residue of
negative thoughts. Force your mind to acknowledge the things Allah has given
you, and say Alhamdulillah for each of them. Allah (swt) says: If you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in favor]; but if you deny, indeed, My punishment
is severe. [14:7]

5. Remind yourself that not having something can also be a blessing:
1. May be the thing isn’t good for you, and if you did have it, it would make you
unhappy.
. . . Perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not. [2:216]
2. The pain you’re suffering is actually cleansing you of sins and increasing your rewards, if you remain patient.
How wonderful is the case of a believer; there is good for him in everything and this applies only to a believer. If prosperity
attends him, he expresses gratitude to Allah and that is good for him; and if adversity befalls him, he endures it patiently and that is better for him. [Muslim].

6. Finally, remember that our main job in this world is not enjoying its pleasures.
It’s to earn eternal enjoyment and pleasures for the next world. And remember, every tiniest thing that you desire will be yours there, in sha Allah.

Written by Tabassum Mosleh and Edited by Qasim Adepegba






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Nice post @ Op.

Envying is a terrible disease dangerous more than HIV... May Allah guide us and make us not of those who envy others progress.

Allah accept our supplications, bring peace to dis nation, mercy, unite and ease the burden on us. Amin....


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God save us.

Jazakah lahu khairan, may Allah bless the writer and you the Op, been looking for this kind of article for long

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That's a nice reminder, thanks to you @Op

Barka Jumat to you all.

May Allah SWT protect us from this evil.

we have cases of envying that are good

May Allah guard our Hearts from the evil of envy and other evils of the dunya and grant us abundance of his mercies
Ameen