Envy vs Jealous

Assalamualaikum wbt my dear friends..

Today, I am going to talk about envy vs jealousy. Can you exactly differentiate between these two words?Actually both of this words have one thing in common you see. They both representing our feeling.
But to be honest, it is better to feel jealous than envy because you know in Malay jealous means 'cemburu' while envy means 'iri hati'.

To be precise, envy is not good because not only you feel jealous to that person but you don't want them to have what they have right now. So. in another words, you are consider a bad person if you have this kind of feeling. Even Allah swt don't like people who envy others. It just not good but it is totally different with jealousy because you can gain positive and negative things from this feeling. I mean, if you feel jealous at that person because he or she is smarter than you, and you are using your jealousy to make you study hard to compete with them, then, it is a good jealousy rather than you only feel jealous but do not do anything. What a waste.

But sadly, that is my biggest problem right now. I tend to get jealous easily. I really don't like it but this feeling always appear in my heart. Hm, I don't know what to do. I keep reminding myself that i have been tarbiyyah and I am different because I had fully understand what I am suppose to do as Muslim and besides I'm trying hard to embrace Islam completely. It takes a lot of effort and if I am not strong maybe I will be lost then it will be hard for me to find my way back. I am so scared. I don't want that to happen to me. So, hm yeah. I'm so sorry to all the people that I used to feel jealous. It was so not mature of me. It just because sometimes I want to have what they had...not property actually, but sometimes the person's beautifulness, bravery and a character that the person possess. I always look down on myself which is not going to give me any good. However, insya allah, I will try to be not so jealous of anyone anymore. >_<

Hope that I can remove this bad habit of mine. I do mean it for real. Hehe. Tapi rasa cemburu itu kadang-kadang tanda sayang tapi oopps aku just simpan rasa 'cemburu' macam tuh untuk bakal suami aku je la nnt.. hehe...


till here, wassalam..