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وَأَمّا إِذا مَا ابتَلاهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيهِ رِزقَهُ فَيَقولُ رَبّي أَهانَنِ

Muhammad Asad

whereas, whenever He tries him by straitening his means of livelihood, he says, "My Sustainer has disgraced me!"1
  • I.e., he regards the absence or loss of affluence not as a trial, but as an evidence of divine "injustice" - which, in its turn, may lead to a denial of God's existence.