Ḥasad
Definition
Hasad is the pain that arises at another person's blessing — whether wealth, health, status, intelligence, family, or any other good — combined with the desire for that blessing to be removed. Al-Ghazali's definition is precise: it is not merely the desire for similar blessing for oneself (which is ghibta, permissible) but the specific wish that the other person should lose what they have. He identifies hasad as one of the most destructive of all heart-diseases because it is directed outward at others while destroying the one who harbours it — the envious person lives in a state of continuous pain at the constant good fortune of those around them.
As understood in the classical tradition of Imam al-Ghazali and the scholars of his school.
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