ENVY

Arabic Ḥasad ( حسد‎ ). The word occurs twice in the Qurʾān. Sūrah ii. 103 : “Many of those who have the Book would fain turn you again into unbelievers, even after ye have once believed, and that through envy .” Sūrah cxiii .: “I seek refuge … from the evil of the envious when he envies .”