How can a person know who has envied him, and how should the one who has been envied be treated?

How can a person know who has envied him, and how should the one who has been envied be treated?

Is it possible for a person who has been affected by envy (hasad) to know whether the envy came from himself or from another person? What is the remedy in either case?.

 

Praise be to Allaah.
 

 

Firstly: 

If a person looks at something he has with admiration and he
does not pray for barakah (blessing) for it, by saying “Baarik Allaahu fihi
(may Allaah bless it)” and the like, and this thing is then affected in some
way, then it is possible to know that he has inflicted hasad on himself.  

It is not possible to know that a specific person is the one
who has envied you, except in circumstances such as those described above,
such as if a person enters your shop and starts to admire it but does not
pray for it to be blessed, then things in the shop get broken or damaged.

 This applies in cases where the effect is seen straightaway.
But if a long time passes before something happens, then we cannot be
certain that a specific person has envied him. 

There are means that some people use to find out who has put
the evil eye on something or someone, but these are not prescribed or
approved of in sharee’ah, rather they are devilish means, such as imagining
(the person who caused it) during recitation of Qur’aan as a remedy, or
seeking the help of the jinn and devils (shayaateen) to find out such
things. 

The scholars of the Standing Committee said: 

With regard to imagining (the person who caused it) during
recitation of Qur’aan as a remedy, this is a devilish procedure which is not
permitted, because it is seeking the help of the devils (shayaateen), who
appear to the sick person in the form of the one who afflicted him. This is
something that is haraam, because it involves seeking the help of the
devils, and because it stirs up enmity between the people, and spreads fear
and mistrust among people, so it comes under the verse in which Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning): 

“And verily, there were men among mankind who took shelter
with the males among the jinn, but they (jinn) increased them (mankind) in
sin and transgression”

[al-Jinn 72:6] 

They said: It is not
permissible to seek the help of the jinn in order to find out what has been
done and how it should be treated, because seeking the help of the jinn is
shirk. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): 

“And verily, there were men among mankind who took shelter
with the males among the jinn, but they (jinn) increased them (mankind) in
sin and transgression”

[al-Jinn 72:6] 

And He says (interpretation of the meaning): 

“And on the Day when He will gather them (all) together
(and say): ‘O you assembly of jinn! Many did you mislead of men,’ and their
Awliyaa’ (friends and helpers) amongst men will say: ‘Our Lord! We benefited
one from the other, but now we have reached our appointed term which You did
appoint for us.’ He will say: ‘The Fire be your dwelling place, you will
dwell therein forever, except as Allaah may will. Certainly your Lord is
All-Wise, All-Knowing’”

[al-An’aam 6:128] 

What is meant by
benefiting from one another is that the humans venerated the jinn and
humbled themselves to them and sought their help, so the jinn served them
and did what they wanted, and brought them what they asked for – including
telling them the nature and causes of sickness, things which the jinn can
see but humans cannot. But they may tell them lies because they cannot be
trusted and it is not permissible to believe them. 

 Majallat al-Da’wah, no. 1682. 

Secondly: 

With regard to treating one who has been affected by envy,
there are two ways of doing this: 

If the person who envied him is known, he may be asked to do
ghusl and the water used should then be poured on the “victim”. If he is not
known then the remedy is by means of ruqyah and the dhikrs prescribed in
sharee’ah. 

Following note from Learning Quran online Blog 

 

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