Text of verse 70:21
وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًا ٢١
Transliteration
wa-idhā massahu l-khayru manūʿan
Translation
And when good touches him, withholding [of it],
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Al-Ma’arij, Verse 21
سورة المعارج، الآية ٢١
Verse 21 of Surah Al-Ma’arij (70:21), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 569 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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Tafsir of verse 21
Al-Mukhtasar
And when something that makes him happy comes to him, i.e. fertility and wealth, he is very resistant in spending it in the path of Allah.
Other translations of verse 21
but when good fortune comes his way, he becomes tight-fisted –
And niggardly when good touches him.
And, when good befalleth him, grudging;
And niggardly when good reaches him;-
And niggardly when good befalls him
And when charity touches him, (he is) a constant preventer of it,
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Hadiths that cite this verse
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Sahih al-Bukhari 7535
`Amr bin Taghlib said, "Some property was given to the Prophet (ﷺ) and he gave it to some people and withheld it from some others. Then he came to know that they (the latter) were dissatisfied. So the Prophet said, 'I give to one man and leave (do not give) another, and the one to whom I do not…
إِنِّي أُعْطِي الرَّجُلَ وَأَدَعُ الرَّجُلَ، وَالَّذِي أَدَعُ أَحَبُّ إِلَىَّ مِنَ الَّذِي أُعْطِي، أُعْطِي أَقْوَامًا لِمَا فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ مِنَ الْجَزَعِ وَالْهَلَعِ، وَأَكِلُ أَقْوَامًا إِلَى مَا جَعَلَ اللَّهُ فِي…