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Allah Condemns Hoarding of
Money or Property - I |
An Arabic word for hoarding money or property is BUKHL
بخل which is also used in the following meanings:
In the following verses of the Quran, Allah has
condemned niggardliness or hoarding of the money or
property:
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3/180 And let not those deem, who are niggardly in
giving away that which Allah has granted them out of His
grace, that it is good for them; nay, it is worse for
them; they shall have their hoardings made to cleave to
their necks on the resurrection day; and Allah's is the
heritage of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is
aware of what you do.
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4/37 Those who are niggardly (and hoard money or
property) and bid people to be niggardly and hide what
Allah has given them out of His grace; We have prepared
for those who hide Allah's blessings from others, a
disgraceful chastisement.
[Kafireen in the above verse has been rendered as 'those
who hide Allah's blessings from other', since the
primary signification of the root k-f-r is to hide or
cover something. This meanings is more suitable
according to the context of the verse]
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9:75-77 And there are
those of them who made a covenant with Allah: If He give
us out of His grace, we will certainly give sadqaat
and we will certainly be of the good. But when He gave
them out of His grace, they became niggardly of it and
they turned back and they withdrew. So He made
hypocrisy to follow as a consequence into their hearts
till the day when they shall meet Him because they
failed to perform towards Allah what they had promised
with Him and because they told lies.
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47:38 Behold! You are
those who are called upon to spend in the way of ALLAH;
but of you there are some who are niggardly. And whoso
is niggardly
(and hoards money or property),
is niggardly only against his own selves. And
ALLAH is Self-Sufficient, and it is you who are needy.
And if you turn your backs, HE will bring in your place
another people; then they will not be like you.
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57/24 Those who are
niggardly
(and hoard money or property)
and enjoin niggardliness on men; and whoever turns back,
then surely Allah is He Who is the Self-sufficient, the
Praised.
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92:8-10 And as for
him who is niggardly
(and hoards money or property)
and considers himself free from need (of Allah), And
rejects what is good, We will indeed make smooth for him
the path to Misery
1-06-2004
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