BTCDividedByZero on Nostr: Hmm đ€ I donât think there was anything mentioned or indicated in the video that ...
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I donât think there was anything mentioned or indicated in the video that the poorer person wished the richer person didnât have XâŠthey just said âhow is it good that some have and others donâtâ.
Yes, envy is bad. We call it âhasadâ in Arabic, and the definition is:
âTo see others with something you donât have and wish they didnât have itâ
That is a major sin in Islam. So on that point, agreed.
But letâs look at a scenario, if you can understand what my perspective was.
Two neighbours. Each own their own house, and neither of them has âhouse insuranceâ. Lightning strikes one house, sets it on fire đ„ and it burns to the ground. The other survived.
It is âgoodâ that both houses werenât burnt down, but it wasnât good for the person whose house is now gone. One doesnât need to have envy for the house to survive to think that their situation isnât good.
This is why, itâs understandable in healthy communities, for ppl to pull together to help those who things didnât work out for them. But to say âwell, I survived so itâs good, as for you, then you can deal with thatâ this is what Iâm talking about.
We have two extremes and we have a middle. The middle being, we have collective responsibility for each other. Those that have should help for those who donât. We all understand that. Sometimes that responsibility is more due to additional ties, like family ties; neighbour ties, national ties, proximity ties and so on, but we canât ignore that reality, which I feel many in the west, do.
I donât think there was anything mentioned or indicated in the video that the poorer person wished the richer person didnât have XâŠthey just said âhow is it good that some have and others donâtâ.
Yes, envy is bad. We call it âhasadâ in Arabic, and the definition is:
âTo see others with something you donât have and wish they didnât have itâ
That is a major sin in Islam. So on that point, agreed.
But letâs look at a scenario, if you can understand what my perspective was.
Two neighbours. Each own their own house, and neither of them has âhouse insuranceâ. Lightning strikes one house, sets it on fire đ„ and it burns to the ground. The other survived.
It is âgoodâ that both houses werenât burnt down, but it wasnât good for the person whose house is now gone. One doesnât need to have envy for the house to survive to think that their situation isnât good.
This is why, itâs understandable in healthy communities, for ppl to pull together to help those who things didnât work out for them. But to say âwell, I survived so itâs good, as for you, then you can deal with thatâ this is what Iâm talking about.
We have two extremes and we have a middle. The middle being, we have collective responsibility for each other. Those that have should help for those who donât. We all understand that. Sometimes that responsibility is more due to additional ties, like family ties; neighbour ties, national ties, proximity ties and so on, but we canât ignore that reality, which I feel many in the west, do.