Arrogance, Enmity, and Envy

[Ismail Dalbani]

Arrogance, having enmity for, and envy of, Muslims are all sins of the heart. These are bad attributes, of which many people are unaware, because they do not know what they are or how to avoid them.
Arrogance is to reject the truth and to look down on people.
In a Hadith related by Muslim, the Prophet, may God raise his rank, said what means: "Arrogance is rejecting the truth and looking down on others."
What is understood from this hadith is that arrogance is rejecting what one knows is right, because the person saying it is young, poor, a student, or weak.
Looking down on people is like being arrogant with a poor person, because he is poor. Thus, the arrogant refuses to listen to him or speak with him.

Enmity, on the other hand, is to hate a Muslim, to accept this feeling, and to act in accordance with this feeling.
 
Envy is to hate and feel bitter about the endowment of Allah on a Muslim, whether it be worldly or religious, and to wish that it would be taken from that Muslim and would be bestowed upon oneself.
This is a sin only if one does not hate this feeling and if one acts in accordance with it. If one hates the envy one feels, and does not act accordingly, then it is not a sin