Jealousy -A curse passion
(Syed Manazir-ul-Haq, Karachi)
It is said that emotion and
human are closely attached to each other and no body is free from emotional
tendency. In fact passions reflect our thinking and personality. The reaction
which we display on any incident or on any substance it is called passion or
emotion. For example if any person gets Rs.10.00 million on a prize bond he
would become so happy and his passion would be known as emotion of happiness. In
the other way if a close relative of anybody dies it affects him deeply with
sorrow it is known as the passion of sadness. The happiness and sorrow run with
the human beings and no body is free from it. It is blessing of Allah that He
has created pairs of each substance like life and death, happiness and grief and
so on. If the second opponent had not created we would have never been enjoyed
with the first substance. We should enjoy expressing thanks to Allah on former
passion and take patience on the latter because Allah says: “I am with the
patients”. But in spite of this there are many kinds of passion to which we can
divide briefly in two types: One positive passion and the other negative.
Positive passion is known as proud and the negative passion is known as
Jealousy. When one person gets happy over the progress and development of other
person and makes potential efforts to become the same it is known as pompous or
Rushk ) (Urdu terminology). On the other hand if a person feels anger and
disgust over the growth of others and wants he should fall into dell it is known
as jealousy which only harms the jealous person in the world and in the
doomsday. The positive ardor puts healthy and good effects on the personality of
mankind. Such man has a balanced personality. Contrary to this, negative
passions spoil the character of man and his individuality becomes unbalanced. He
not only for himself but also for his family invites countless problems. He
becomes unwanted persona of society and leads a failure life. Because the
sentiment of anybody is not limited to himself but affects on to others and in
this way the features of individuality of anybody become obvious. For example to
feel sorrow to see others in trouble and the passion of helping him to remove
his difficulties is extremely good and best passion. Against this to feel
happiness to see others in trouble is outright negative passion. True and
sincere sympathy to others, good dealing and good thinking for them all of this
is vital passions. Only the positive emotions and healthy thinking make man
great in true means. Contrary to this desire and lust, greed, unfaithful to
others, torching and jealousy are tremendously negative passions that by making
man ill mentally push him into the curse of well. Although all negative emotions
are pest or irritation yet among them jealously is the worst passion. In fact
jealousy is such passion which feels unhappiness by heart, being seen others
into prosperous. This passion puts man into fire and torture. A jealous man
always tries to hurt others – he desires that opponents always fall on into
misery and he feels happiness and glad over others’ misery.
Jealousy in fact is the name of such happiness which is felt when others fall
into trouble, danger and hit by lack of livelihood. A jealous person not only
destroys his world but also ruins his judgment day because the jealousy is also
the curse and bad passion before Almighty Allah and his prophets. Therefore the
emperor of time and space, prophet of Allah and the greatest reformer once said:
“Jealousy engulfs the good deeds such as the fire burns the woods”. It means
that all good deeds of jealous man even Prayers, Fast, Zakat and Pilgrimage are
not accepted by Allah rightly said rejected. In this way a jealous man is
remained willing-less in the world and day after life. Jealousy is the worst
mental and spiritual disease. A jealous man always runs into fire and displeases
being seen to others into pleasure. Thus he only irritates his heart and can
never lead an agreeable and relief life. Allah may save all of us from the worst
deed like jealousy Aameen.