Surah Fajr ayat 16 Tafsir Quran 89:16

﴿وَأَمَّا إِذَا مَا ابْتَلَاهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّي أَهَانَنِ﴾
[ الفجر: 16]

89:16 But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."

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

And when He tests him by restricting his means, he despairingly says: Allah, my Creator, has disregarded me and reduced me to humiliation

Wealth and Poverty are both a Test and Honor or Disgrace for the Servant Allah refutes man in his belief that if Allah gives Him abundant provisions to test him with it, it is out of His honor for him.
But this is not the case, rather it is a trial and a test, as Allah says, أَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّمَا نُمِدُّهُمْ بِهِ مِن مَّالٍ وَبَنِينَ - نُسَارِعُ لَهُمْ فِى الْخَيْرَتِ بَل لاَّ يَشْعُرُونَ ( Do they think that in wealth and children with which We enlarge them.
We hasten unto them with good things.
Nay, but they perceive not. ) ( 23:55-56 ) Likewise, from another angle, if Allah tests him and tries him by curtailing his sustenance, he believes that is because Allah is humiliating him.
As Allah says, كَلاَّ ( But no! ) meaning, the matter is not as he claims, neither in this nor in that.
For indeed Allah gives wealth to those whom He loves as well as those whom He does not love.
Likewise, He withholds sustenance from those whom He loves and those whom He does not love.
The point is that Allah should be obeyed in either circumstance.
If one is wealthy, he should thank Allah for that, and if he is poor, he should exercise patience. From the Evil that the Servant does regarding Wealth Allah said, بَل لاَّ تُكْرِمُونَ الْيَتِيمَ- ( But you treat not the orphans with kindness and generosity! ) This contains the command to honor him ( the orphan ).
Abu Dawud recorded from Sahl bin Sa`id that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,
«أَنَا وَكَافِلُ الْيَتِيمِ كَهَاتَيْنِ فِي الْجَنَّة»
( The guardian of the orphan and I will be like these two in Paradise. ) And he put his two fingers together - the middle finger and the index finger. وَلاَ تَحَاضُّونَ عَلَى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ- ( And urge not one another on the feeding of the Miskin! ) meaning, they do not command that the poor and the needy be treated with kindness, nor do they encourage each other to do so. وَتَأْكُلُونَ التُّرَاثَ ( And you devour the Turath ) meaning, the inheritance. أَكْلاً لَّمّاً ( devouring with greed. ) meaning, however they can get it, whether lawful or forbidden. وَتُحِبُّونَ الْمَالَ حُبّاً جَمّاً ( And you love wealth with love Jamma. ) meaning, in abundance.
This increases some of them in their wickedness.

(89:16) But when He tests him by straitening his sustenance, he says: 'My Lord has humiliated me.' *9

But when He tries him and restricts meaning

*9) This then is man's materialistic view of life.
He regards the wealth and position and power of this world alone as everything.
When he has it, he is filled with pride and says God has honoured me; and when he fails to obtain it, he says: God has humiliated me.
Thus, the criterion of honour and humiliation in his sight is the possession of wealth and position and power, or the absence of it, whereas the actual truth which he does not understand is that whatever Allah has given anybody in the world has been given for the sake of a trial.
If he has given him wealth and power, it has been given for a trial to see whether he becomes grateful for it, or commits ingratitude.
If he has made him poor, in this too there is a trial for him to see whether he remains content and patient in the will of God and faces his hardships bravely within permissible bounds, or becomes ready to transgress every limit of morality and honesty and starts cursing his God.

 

Wealth and Poverty are both a Test and Honor or Disgrace for the Servant Allah refutes man in his belief that if Allah gives Him abundant provisions to test him with it, it is out of His honor for him.
But this is not the case, rather it is a trial and a test, as Allah says, أَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّمَا نُمِدُّهُمْ بِهِ مِن مَّالٍ وَبَنِينَ - نُسَارِعُ لَهُمْ فِى الْخَيْرَتِ بَل لاَّ يَشْعُرُونَ ( Do they think that in wealth and children with which We enlarge them.
We hasten unto them with good things.
Nay, but they perceive not. ) ( 23:55-56 ) Likewise, from another angle, if Allah tests him and tries him by curtailing his sustenance, he believes that is because Allah is humiliating him.
As Allah says, كَلاَّ ( But no! ) meaning, the matter is not as he claims, neither in this nor in that.
For indeed Allah gives wealth to those whom He loves as well as those whom He does not love.
Likewise, He withholds sustenance from those whom He loves and those whom He does not love.
The point is that Allah should be obeyed in either circumstance.
If one is wealthy, he should thank Allah for that, and if he is poor, he should exercise patience. From the Evil that the Servant does regarding Wealth Allah said, بَل لاَّ تُكْرِمُونَ الْيَتِيمَ- ( But you treat not the orphans with kindness and generosity! ) This contains the command to honor him ( the orphan ).
Abu Dawud recorded from Sahl bin Sa`id that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, «أَنَا وَكَافِلُ الْيَتِيمِ كَهَاتَيْنِ فِي الْجَنَّة» ( The guardian of the orphan and I will be like these two in Paradise. ) And he put his two fingers together - the middle finger and the index finger. وَلاَ تَحَاضُّونَ عَلَى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ- ( And urge not one another on the feeding of the Miskin! ) meaning, they do not command that the poor and the needy be treated with kindness, nor do they encourage each other to do so. وَتَأْكُلُونَ التُّرَاثَ ( And you devour the Turath ) meaning, the inheritance. أَكْلاً لَّمّاً ( devouring with greed. ) meaning, however they can get it, whether lawful or forbidden. وَتُحِبُّونَ الْمَالَ حُبّاً جَمّاً ( And you love wealth with love Jamma. ) meaning, in abundance.
This increases some of them in their wickedness.

( 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.

But when He tries him, by straitening his means of life, he says: "My Lord has humiliated me!"

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