. Li (cont.)

(3) He should seek refuge in Allah from the evil of the envious person. He should supplicate to and seek refuge in Allah as found in the next to last surah of the Quran, "From the evil of the envious one when he envies" (al-Falaq 5). ( 4) He should be just toward the envious one. He should not wrong the envious one and go beyond what is right in such a case. ( 5) He should try to be nice and compassionate to the envious one. Envy is strongly related to hatred. When the envied one is very nice to the 1 Cf., Taataay, p. 296. 2 A lengthier discussion of this topic by ibn al-Qayyim can be found in al-Saalihi, vol. 6, pp.