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The Bee • Meccan • Juz 14 • Page
Juz
14
Page
Hizb
110
Ruku
233
Manzil
3
Allah presents an example: a slave [who is] owned and unable to do a thing and he to whom We have provided from Us good provision, so he spends from it secretly and publicly. Can they be equal? Praise to Allah! But most of them do not know.
— Sahih International
The Example of the Believer and the Disbeliever, or the Idol and the True God Al-`Awfi reported that Ibn `Abbas said: "This is the example which Allah gives of the disbeliever and the believer." This was also the view of Qatadah and Ibn Jarir. The servant who has no power over anything is like the disbeliever, and the one who is given good provisions and spends of them secretly and openly is like the believer. Ibn Abi Najih reported that Mujahid said: "This is an example given of the idol and the True God - can they be the same" Once the difference between them is so clear and so obvious, no one can be unaware of it except the one who is foolish. Allah says: الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ (All the praises and thanks are to Allah. Nay! (But) most of them know not.)
— Tafsir Ibn Kathir by Ismail ibn Kathir
Ayah 1976 of 6236 • 4 Translations •2 Tafsir Sources • 0 Themes