وَقَالَ (عليه السلام):
Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said:
عُجْبُ الْمَرْءِ بِنَفْسِهِ
A man's vanity for himself
أَحَدُ حُسَّادِ عَقْلِهِ.
is one of the enemies of his intelligence. 49
49. It means that just as an envious person cannot appreciate any good in him whom he envies, similarly, vanity cannot tolerate the emergence of intelligence or the prominence of good qualities as a result of which the envious person remains devoid of those qualities which are deemed to be good by human intellect.
