teacher; a teacher may feel jealousy towards another other teacher due to his good way of teaching and his popularity amongst students and administration, not towards any spiritual guide.

One spiritual guide may feel jealousy towards any other spiritual guide due to the large number of his devotees & followers and his popularity amongst the public of the upper class and lower class, not towards any businessman; one businessman may feel jealousy towards any other businessman due to his high income, mansion, vehicle, lavish life style, social status, being honourable amongst eminent personalities, being highly respectable in the family, not towards any scholar; one scholar can feel jealousy towards any other scholar due to his fame, abundance of followers, affection for him by wealthy people, huge number of listeners in congregation and popularity amongst people along with his big appellations. Similarly, dresses, jewellery, decoration of house, beauty & character, graceful behaviour by parents-in-law and peaceful domestic life are the common causes of jealousy. This results in domestic conspiracies, straining the peaceful environment of homes; so, owing to these various causes, jealousy may start affecting a relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, between brothers & sisters, and even amongst close relatives.

Three signs of a jealous     person

Sayyiduna Wahb Bin Munabbih رَضِىَ اللّٰهُ عَـنْهُ has stated, ‘There are three signs of jealous person:

1.   When in front of the Mahsood (the one towards whom there is jealousy), he praises him unnecessarily (i.e., flattery)

2.   He backbites him behind his back

3.   He becomes happy when he is in trouble.’ (Minhaj-ul-‘Aabideen, p.74)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                                                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد