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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

Have you seen him who turns away and gives a little, and that grudg-
ingly? (Surat an-Najm, 33-34)
(God does not love) those who are tight-fisted and tell others to be

tight-fisted. If anyone turns away, God is the Rich Beyond Need, the
Praiseworthy. (Surat al-Hadid, 24)
Do not keep your hand chained to your neck but do not extend it
either to its full extent so that you sit there blamed and destitute.
(Surat al-Isra’, 29)
Here you are then: people who are called upon to spend in the Way

of God and then some of you are tight-fisted! But whoever is tight-
fisted is only tight-fisted to himself. God is Rich and you are poor.
If you turn away, He will replace you with a people other than your-
selves and they will not be like you. (Surah Muhammad, 38)
As for those who are tight-fisted and direct others to be tight-fisted,
and hide the bounty God has given them, We have prepared a humil-
iating punishment for those who disbelieve. (Surat an-Nisa’, 37)
Say: ‘Even if you possessed the vast storehouses of my Lord’s mercy,

you would still hold back, fearing they would run out.’ (Surat al-
Isra’, 100)
So have fear of God, as much as you are able to, and listen and obey
and spend for your own benefit. It is the people who are safe-guard-
ed from the avarice of their own selves who are successful. (Surat
at-Taghabun, 16)

Among them there were some who made an agreement with God:
‘If He gives us of His bounty we will definitely give charity and be
among the righteous.’ But when He does give them of His bounty
they are tight-fisted with it and turn away, so He has punished them

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