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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The benefits of the verse ((And of what We have provided them, they spend)): Explaining the virtue of giving charity and the condemnation of stinginess.

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Among the benefits of this noble verse is the virtue of spending in the path of Allah, specifically the virtue of spending wealth, as He said:
And of what We have provided them, they spend ومما رزقنهم ينفقون

And among its benefits is that the charity of the usurper is invalid. From where is it taken?
Of what We have provided them مما رزقنهم
Because the usurper does not own the wealth with which he gives charity, so his charity is not accepted.
And among its benefits is the indication of the condemnation of stinginess, as He said:
Of what We have provided themمما رزقنهم
Did you acquire the wealth through your own earning? No, the One who gave you the wealth is Allah.
Of what We have provided themمما رزقنهم
He did not say: "From what they earned," but rather He said:
Of what We have provided themمما رزقنهم
And even what a person earns is through Allah's facilitation. How many people have knocked on the doors of sustenance from every side but were not successful. So, among the benefits of this noble verse is the virtue of spending. However, here He was general, or rather, He summarized the matter of what is spent in. He said:
And of what We have provided them, they spendمما رزقنهم ينفقون
Meaning, He specified what is spent from, but did not specify what is spent in. We say, yes, but it is specified in many verses.
They ask you, [O Muhammad], what they should spend. Say, "Whatever you spend of good is [to be] for parents يسألونك ماذا ينفقون قل ما أنفقتم من خير فللوالدين
[Al-Baqarah 2:215]
The answer is:
They ask you, what should they spend?يسألونك ماذا ينفقون
Say, "Whatever you spend of good is [to be] for parentsقل ما أنفقتم من خير فللوالدين
[Al-Baqarah 2:215]
It is as if He said: Ask about what you spend? Yes, ask in what you spend?
Say, "Whatever you spend of good is [to be] for parentsقل ما أنفقتم من خير فللوالدين
[Al-Baqarah 2:215]
They ask you, what should they spend?يسألونك ماذا ينفقون
About what? Say, O people, what do they spend? What do they spend? So Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said:
Say, "Whatever you spend of good is [to be] for parentsقل ما أنفقتم من خير فللوالدين
[Al-Baqarah 2:215]
Thus He specified what is spent in, because that is the important part. Many people may give away half of their wealth, but in the path of the tyrant. The beneficial thing is in the path of Allah, meaning in what pleases Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
But it may be said that His saying:
Say, "Whatever you spend of goodقل ما أنفقتم من خير
[Al-Baqarah 2:215]
Someone might say that in it is an indication of what is spent from, which is that the spending should be good. In any case, the verse here is summarized; Allah summarized the spending in it:
And of what We have provided them, they spendمما رزقنهم ينفقون
So it is summarized, and it is said that this summary is clarified in other texts from the Qur'an and the Sunnah. Has the time ended? Yes.
Source alathar.net

The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.

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