38وَالَّذينَ يُنفِقونَ أَموالَهُم رِئَاءَ النّاسِ وَلا يُؤمِنونَ بِاللَّهِ وَلا بِاليَومِ الآخِرِ ۗ وَمَن يَكُنِ الشَّيطانُ لَهُ قَرينًا فَساءَ قَرينًاMuhammad AsadAnd [God does not love] those who spend their possessions on others [only] to be seen and praised by men, the while they believe neither in God nor in the Last Day; and he who has Satan for a soul-mate, how evil a soul-mate has he!1An allusion to 2:268, where Satan is spoken of as "threatening you with the prospect of poverty and bidding you to be niggardly", the implication being that those who obey him "have Satan for their soul-mate (qarin)". For the derivation of this term, see note on 41:25.