Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Fajr, Ayah 16

Al-Fajr · Ayah 16 · View Ayah
وَأَمَّآ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَهَٰنَنِ
But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

But when he tests him and restricts his provision for him he says ‘My Lord has humiliated me’.

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(But whenever He trieth him) whenever He tests him with poverty (by straitening his means of life) by tightening his means of living, (he saith: My Lord despiseth me) by giving me poverty and tightening my means of living.

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