Quran 89:20 Surah Fajr ayat 20 Tafsir Ibn Katheer in English
﴿وَتُحِبُّونَ الْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا﴾
[ الفجر: 20]
89:20 And you love wealth with immense love.
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Quran 89:20 Tafsir Al-Jalalayn
and they love wealth with abounding love that is to say greatly and so they do not expend any of it a variant reading in the case of all four verbs has the second person plural.
Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim
And you love to hoard wealth inordinately
Quran 89:20 Tafsir Ibn Kathir
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.
Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
(89:20) and love the riches, loving them ardently. *14
And you love wealth with immense love. meaning
*14) That is, " You have no regard for the permissible or the forbidden, the lawful or the unlawful.
You feel no qualms about acquiring wealth in any way or by any means, fair or foul, and your greed is never satisfied however much you may have acquired and amassed.
"
Tafsir Maarif-ul-Quran Mufti Muhammad Shafi
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.
Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs
And love wealth with abounding love.
Muhammad Taqiud-Din alHilali
And you love wealth with much love!
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