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{ هَا أَنتُمْ هَـٰؤُلاَءِ تُدْعَوْنَ لِتُنفِقُواْ فِي سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ فَمِنكُم مَّن يَبْخَلُ وَمَن يَبْخَلْ فَإِنَّمَا يَبْخَلُ عَن نَّفْسِهِ وَٱللَّهُ ٱلْغَنِيُّ وَأَنتُمُ ٱلْفُقَرَآءُ وَإِن تَتَوَلَّوْاْ يَسْتَبْدِلْ قَوْماً غَيْرَكُمْ ثُمَّ لاَ يَكُونُوۤاْ أَمْثَالَكُم }

…God is the Self-Sufficient One, while you are the needy….Gnosis (maʿrifa) of the secret [divine] mystery (sirr) is [attained] entirely through neediness (faqr), and that is God’s secret (sirr Allāh). The knowledge of [one’s] neediness for God, Exalted is He, is the corrective to the knowledge that [one has] richness (ghinā) through God, Mighty and Majestic is He. But God, Glorified and Exalted is He, knows best.His words, Exalted is He:

Tafsīr al-Tustarī, trans. Annabel Keeler and Ali Keeler
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