The Holy Quran 9:98 — Surah At-Tawbah

Arabic text

وَمِنَ ٱلْأَعْرَابِ مَن يَتَّخِذُ مَا يُنفِقُ مَغْرَمًا وَيَتَرَبَّصُ بِكُمُ ٱلدَّوَآئِرَ ۚ عَلَيْهِمْ دَآئِرَةُ ٱلسَّوْءِ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ

Translation

Among the villagers (the desert Arabs) are those who consider what they spend (charity and contributions to Jihaad) as a tax (a toll, a burden) and they await the ill-fortunes of fate to befall you (Muslims). May ill fortune befall them! Allaah is All Hearing, All Knowing (He knows who deserves ill-fortune and when it will befall them).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

that is, among the Bedouin hypocrites there are also those who, if at some time they have to spend something in the path of Allah, spend it as grudgingly as if they were paying a fine or a penalty. They are still waiting for the Muslims to be caught in some turn of fortune and calamity from the vicissitudes of time, so that they may beat the drums of…

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