Jealousy

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Allah, Mighty and Exalted, said to Moses son of Amran (AS) [known in the Arabic tradition as Aimran], ‘Verily the jealous is discontented with My bounties, and wards off the shares I have apportioned to My servants.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Jealousy is the spirits imprisonment.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Jealousy is the worst disease.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The chief of vices is jealousy.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘How capable jealousy is! And how just it is, that it starts off with its perpetrator and ends up killing him!

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The fruit of jealousy is the misery of this world and the Hereafter.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The jealous one sees a loss for the one he is jealous of as a gain for himself.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘I have not seen a wrong-doer resemble a wronged person more than the jealous one: he has an exhausted spirit, a wandering heart, and an inherent sorrow.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘That which he suffers is [torment] enough for the jealous one.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The jealous one has many regrets, and his vices are manifold.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The jealous one can never rule.