Envy Destroys Your Inner Being

ENVY DESTROYS YOUR INNER BEING One’s soul or inner personality is actually the real human being. One must preserve one’s inner personality, especially from negative influences. T he Prophet of Islam once observed: “Save yourself from envy or jealousy, for envy eats up virtues as fire eats up wood.” (Sunan Abu Dawood 4903) Fire is the killer of wood. Therefore, wood has to be saved from fire in order to preserve it. Similarly, some things are killers of the human body. For bodily health, it is necessary for the body to be completely saved from such fatal things. Exactly the same is true of a person’s inner personality. A person’s soul or his inner personality is actually the real human being. For this real human being, some things are quite fatal. These things will eat into his inner being like fire, therefore, it is to a person’s advantage to save his inner being from them. He must