The Holy Quran 4:38 — Surah An-Nisa

Arabic text

وَٱلَّذِينَ يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَٰلَهُمْ رِئَآءَ ٱلنَّاسِ وَلَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱللَّهِ وَلَا بِٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْـَٔاخِرِ ۗ وَمَن يَكُنِ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ لَهُۥ قَرِينًا فَسَآءَ قَرِينًا

Translation

(Such people are) Those who spend their wealth to show people and who neither believe in Allaah nor in the Last Day. The one whose friend is Shaytaan, (should bear in mind that) he is the worst (most evil) of friends indeed (because he leads people only to Jahannam).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Those who spend for show: and the self-conceited and arrogant are those who spend their wealth to be seen by people. That is, in spending for the sake of Allah they are themselves miserly and urge others to miserliness too, yet they keep spending their wealth to be seen by people; and they have no faith in Allah nor in the Day of Resurrection, such that…

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