Success Between Jealousy and Envy
🖊️Khalaf Allah Alobaid Hussein
How sweet the word “success” is, and how easy it is to pronounce, yet so difficult to achieve. It is the desired hope and the intended goal, a goal that requires work, a strong will, and a firm desire. If you want to achieve success, all you have to do is work harder, remove fear from your heart, and put your trust in God.
Dear Reader
In every success story, there is a hero walking confidently toward the summit, and there are eyes following him… some shining with admiration, others burning with silent flames. Success, as everyone dreams of, can be a test of the heart before it is a reward for the mind.
Success is like the sun: when it rises, it fills the horizon with warmth and light… but, at the same time, it evokes anguish in the eyes if you gaze at it for too long.
It is the fruit of effort, sleepless nights, and confident steps, reaped only by those who believe in themselves and march toward their goal, no matter how adverse the winds are.
But success varies among people.
Some see it as a beautiful, inspiring sight, igniting a noble jealousy in their hearts that drives them to build, learn, and work until they have a share of glory.
Some see it as a thorn in their hearts, and the fire of envy runs deep within them, only quelled by wishing for the loss of that blessing. They fight the person who possesses it with innuendo, insinuations, and perhaps even hurtful actions and words.
Jealousy, if it thrives, creates heroes…
As for envy, it only brings loss, killing its possessor before it touches the successful.
Success is not snatched away by hatred, nor is its sun extinguished by angry breaths.
O successful person…
Proceed on your path. Do not pay attention to the voices of the envious, for only fruitful trees are pelted with stones.
Be humble, for humility transforms the jealousy around you into affection and extinguishes the fire of envy in hearts.
And you, the jealous one…
Make your jealousy a bridge to your dream, not a sword to strike others with.
Remember that if you bless a blessing, it grows, and if you envy it, it departs… and may never return.
Success is a mirror that reveals the true nature of souls… Whoever desires good for others will find goodness flowing into their lives. Whoever makes envy their companion will close the doors of blessings on themselves before closing them on others. So, be an inspiring heart, not a destructive eye, and let the sun of success shine on everyone… For light does not diminish if it is distributed; it only grows brighter.