The Evil Eye of Self Conceit

The Evil Eye – Nazar.
What is Nazar?
Literally it means Gaze.
In MOST cases gazing at something / someone with:
1. ill intentions
2. Envy

Old wives tales and superstitions have made us aware of the evil eye.
I’ve noticed predominantly among Indians, they’re extremely superstitious.

The Granny will dote over the kids saying:
“The baby’s crying a lot, must be Nazar”

She’ll then proceed to get a handful of salt which will be rotated in front of the child, accompanied by incantations in Arabic, English, or other language.

While we have a general concept of superstition stemming from culture or religion, or even paranoia, some superstitions bother us more than others,
e.g a black cat crossing our paths may have no effect where as a breaking a mirror denotes 7 yrs of bad luck, and will send some people into a frenzy of carrying good luck charms.

Now what do I mean by ‘The evil eye of self conceit’?
We’re humanly flawed.
Pride, superiority and other emotions are part of human nature, though religious perspective, Islamic religious perspective at least, says that pride and superiority complexities are wrong.
We should live simply and accept life as it is. BUT we’re human. Emotions are inherent to us, our behavior and our actions. In reference to religious perspective, how do we justify the existence of these… emotions?

Delving away from immateriality,
have you ever considered the spiritual realm or metaphysical boundaries that set us apart from the next person?
We’re all religiously different in strength or steadfastness.
Sometimes wishing we were as good as Person X and at other times we feel superior to Person Y.

I guess that is why God (SWT) has given us 2 eyes,
1 to see the better in others,And another to see the bad in ourselves.

Within self conceit there is no room for self improvement