A disgraceful punishment for the disbelievers (L-542)
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ٱلَّذِينَ يَبْخَلُونَ وَيَأْمُرُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ بِٱلْبُخْلِ وَيَكْتُمُونَ مَآ ءَاتَىٰهُمُ ٱللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِۦ وَأَعْتَدْنَا لِلْكَٰفِرِينَ عَذَابًا مُّهِينًا 37. |
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37. ‘Allaziina yab-khaluuna wa ya’-muruu-nannaasa bil-bukhli wa yaktumuuna maaa ‘aataa-humUllaahu min fazlih. Wa ‘a’-tadNaa lil-kaafiriina ‘azaabam-muhiinaa. 38.
Wallaziina yunfi-quuna ‘amwaalahum ri-‘aaa-‘annaasi
wa laa yu’-minuuna Billaahi wa laa
bil-Yawmil-‘Aakhir. Wa many-yakunish-shaytaanu lahuu
qariinan fasaaa-‘a qariinaa. |
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37. Those who are stingy, and exhort people to stinginess, and conceal what God has given them from His bounty. We have prepared for the disbelievers a disgraceful punishment. 38. And those
who spend their money to be seen by people, and believe neither in God nor in
the Last Day. Whoever has Satan as a companion—what an evil companion. |
This verse is about those people, who are miserly from spending in the path of God themselves and wish to keep off other people too from this goodness. Particularly the children of Israel, in whose Scripture ‘Torah’ the glad tidings about the Last Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ) did exist, and the verses were mentioned about the truth of Islam, but they used to hide them.
It was mentioned in the previous verse that the people who are proud and boastful of their wealth, will never like them. Now it has been commanded that these are the characteristics of such people who are niggard. They spend nothing in the way of God, nor give any advantage to others. God bestowed to them knowledge and wealth but they hid it from other people. They persuade the people for avarice with their tongues as well as their acts. God says, “For disbelievers we have prepared a shameful doom.”
These are also peculiarities of the proud people that they spend their wealth only in order to be seen of men and for cheating, that is to say; they are stingy for spending in the way of God, and they bid the people to be miserly for this purpose. However, certainly they spend their wealth in order to be seen of men. Neither those people believe in God nor do they have any faith in the Last Day (the Day of Resurrection). That is why they do not spend their wealth in order to get the pleasure of God and for the purpose of reward. However, they just want to show others their goodness.
The favorite and accepted manner near Allah Almighty is to fulfill the rights of human beings, and aim of spending the wealth should be to get His pleasure, and have hope for reward in the Hereafter. Only those people, who are possessed by the devil, do the acts of insincerity and public show.
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