Skip to content

It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.

Another quote →

Topics

Jealousy

More quotes by Uthman

Concern with this world is darkness in the heart, but concern with the Hereafter is light in the heart.

No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue.

No one does a good deed but Allah will make it show on him.

Things may be achieved by means of authority that cannot be achieved by means of the Quran.

If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord.

All Uthman quotes →

You may also like

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Ivan Illich Tools for Conviviality (1973)

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus Oresteia (-458)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Uthman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.