Is wishing to buy someone else's car or house and striving to acquire the money to purchase it considered envy or competition, taking into account the hadiths that forbid competition and those that restrict it to the Quran and wealth? And does striving for something differ from wishing for it? And is seeking knowledge forbidden in the context of competition? And what are the guidelines for competition in worldly matters, and do they apply to seeking knowledge?

The forbidden envy is wishing for the blessing to be removed from the one who has it. As for ghibtah (benign envy) or competition, it is for a person to wish to have the like of what another possesses without it being removed from that person. This is praiseworthy if it is in acts of obedience, blameworthy if it is in acts of disobedience, and permissible if it is in permissible matters. Some scholars have restricted competition to virtues. The hadith (definition) "There is no envy except in two [matters]" does not mean that competition is limited to these two; rather, it means that ghibtah is for the one who has attained these two qualities (wisdom and spending [in charity]).