Allah alone is the Provider (ar-Razzaq), these verses affirm, and the provision of every living being is His charge; He extends it or restricts it for whom He wills. Abundance is not a sign of His approval, but an honour for the believer and a trial for the disbeliever; as for gratitude to the Provider, it is an obligation and requires not spreading corruption on earth.
Verses gathered from a topical index of the Quran, in Mushaf order; every verse is quoted in full.
And [recall] when Moses prayed for water for his people, so We said, "Strike with your staff the stone." And there gushed forth from it twelve springs, and every people [i.e., tribe] knew its watering place. "Eat and drink from the provision of Allāh, and do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption."
And Allāh presents an example: a city [i.e., Makkah] which was safe and secure, its provision coming to it in abundance from every location, but it denied the favors of Allāh. So Allāh made it taste the envelopment of hunger and fear for what they had been doing.
And how many a city have We destroyed that was insolent in its [way of] living, and those are their dwellings which have not been inhabited after them except briefly. And it is We who were the inheritors.
