Permissible envy in two cases

19th September 2025

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عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم: لاَ حَسَدَ إِلاَّ فِي اثْنَتَيْنِ، رَجُلٌ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ مَالاً فَسَلَّطَهُ عَلَى هَلَكَتِهِ فِي الْحَقِّ، وَآخَرُ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ حِكْمَةً فَهْوَ يَقْضِي بِهَا وَيُعَلِّمُهَا ‏”‏‏.‏

Hazrat ‘Abdullahra [Ibn Mas‘ud] narrated:

“Allah’s Messengersa said, “Envy is not appropriate except in two cases: a man whom Allah has given wealth and has enabled him to spend it in what is right and another whom Allah has given wisdom, so he judges by it and teaches it.’”

(Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitab al-ahkam, Bab ajri mun qada bi l-hikmah, Hadith 7141)

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