24 Preface الَّذينَ يَبخَلونَ وَيَأمُرونَ النّاسَ بِالبُخلِ ۗ وَمَن يَتَوَلَّ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الغَنِيُّ الحَميدُYusuf AliSuch persons as are1 covetous and commend covetousness to men. And if any turn back2 (from God’s Way), verily God is Free of all Needs, Worthy of all Praise.Neither the Covetous nor the Boasters have any place in the Good Pleasure of God. The Covetous are particularly insidious, as their avarice and miserliness not only keep back the gifts of God from men, but their pernicious example dries up the streams of Charity in others.It is Charity in God’s Way that is specially in view here. If people are selfish and withhold their hand, they only injure themselves. They do not hurt God’s Cause, for He is independent of all needs, and He will find other means of assisting His more meagerly endowed servants; He is worthy of all praise in His###