[Some Jews said to the Muslims: “If you had truly followed the truth, then God would have given you as much money as has He given to us, and would not have let you poor; therefore, this aya was revealed:]
Quran 13: 28, which means:
(God enlarges provision and straitens it to whomever He wills a.
And [Jews] rejoice in this life of the World b, but this life of the World is only a little ‘take-away food’ c in [relation to] the Next Life.)
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a It means: God gives much provision to any of His servants He likes to give, and He restricts the provision for others, in a way of testing them to see will they be grateful and give thanks, or will they disbelieve and deny His bounties.
And the much wealth is not essentially given to the one who follows the truth; but God gives to disbelievers much wealth in the life of the World in order that they will lose in the Next life.
b Their rejoicing firstly is with the wealth and children, and secondly: they rejoice with their wishful thinking when they said: “We are the ‘chosen people of God’ and He will not punish us in the Next Life more than seven days.”
c i.e. like what ‘food and stuff’ which the traveler takes for his journey, then his food will finish within a short time. While the stuffs of the Next Life will last forever, will not vanish, neither will it corrupt nor finish.
Quran 13: 28, which means:
(God enlarges provision and straitens it to whomever He wills a.
And [Jews] rejoice in this life of the World b, but this life of the World is only a little ‘take-away food’ c in [relation to] the Next Life.)
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a It means: God gives much provision to any of His servants He likes to give, and He restricts the provision for others, in a way of testing them to see will they be grateful and give thanks, or will they disbelieve and deny His bounties.
And the much wealth is not essentially given to the one who follows the truth; but God gives to disbelievers much wealth in the life of the World in order that they will lose in the Next life.
b Their rejoicing firstly is with the wealth and children, and secondly: they rejoice with their wishful thinking when they said: “We are the ‘chosen people of God’ and He will not punish us in the Next Life more than seven days.”
c i.e. like what ‘food and stuff’ which the traveler takes for his journey, then his food will finish within a short time. While the stuffs of the Next Life will last forever, will not vanish, neither will it corrupt nor finish.