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but there is nothing virtuous about envy. Coveting says, "He has it; I want it." Envy, though, says: "If I can't have it, nobody can." ; Envy is frustrated desire turned destructive. Envy is what leads a child to break another child's favorite toy, or a boss to frustrate a talented employee.
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Envy might just be one of the ugliest and most destructive energies a human being can muster, not to mention one of the most difficult realities to admit. And if you've ever been the target of someone's envy, then you know just how helpless you are in its vortex.
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Hasad (destructive envy) means wishing that a blessing that Allaah has bestowed on the envied person be taken away. Allaah enjoined His Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) to seek refuge with Him from the evil of the envier when he envies.
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With regard to dealing with the evil eye and hasad (destructive envy), there is no doubt that when a person is close to Allaah, always remembering Him (dhikr) and reading Qur’aan, he is less likely to be affected by the evil eye and other kinds of harm from the devils of mankind and the jinn.
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Pathological envy is an integral part of narcissism. ... In 'Facial Justice' Hartley (1960) describes a life after a catastrophic war. A Dictator has decreed that envy is so destructive that it has to be eliminated. The citizens are coerced to be as alike each other as possible.
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Envy was considered the worst. It is interesting, I think, that this random sample should recognise envy's destructive power. Envy is out of the closet so to speak. For some time the understanding of envy's malignancy was the preserve of the analytic community.
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In this book, Melanie Klein has radically revised our knowledge of two fundamentally important sources of human behaviour—envy and gratitude. She considers that envy is an oral sadistic and anal sadistic expression of destructive impulses operative from the beginning of life, and that it has a constitutional basis.
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