The Holy Quran 70:21 — Surah Al-Ma'arij

Arabic text

وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًا

Translation

...and when he experiences good fortune, he becomes miserly (too scared to lose what he has).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The faint-heartedness of man: that is, he does not show firmness and resolve in any direction. When poverty and hunger, illness and hardship come, he becomes impatient and panics, and even despairs, as though no way out of the calamity now remains; and when he receives wealth and riches, health and plenty, his hand does not rise for good, and he is not…

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