Tafsir for verse: 4:53
أَمۡ لَهُمۡ نَصِيبٞ مِّنَ ٱلۡمُلۡكِ فَإِذٗا لَّا يُؤۡتُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ نَقِيرًا ٥٣ ﴿53
53Is it that they have a share in the kingdom? If so, they would give nothing to the people, not even to the measure of a tiny pit on the back of a date-stone?
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Commentary

And when the decree was: 'Thus, it was from their obligation to be humiliated and degraded'; he added to it his saying: ﴿Or﴾; meaning: there is not ﴿for them a share﴾; meaning: one of the shares; ﴿of the kingdom, then﴾; meaning: this leads to the fact that if they had the slightest share of it; ﴿they would not give the people﴾; meaning: those who believed; ﴿even a speck﴾; meaning: anything from this world; nor the Hereafter; of guidance or otherwise; and 'the speck' is the indentation on the back of the seed; it was said: it is the utmost in scarcity; so it is a metaphor for non-existence; this indicates that due to their excessive stinginess, they are only suited for what they are in of humiliation; so how about the degree of kingship? Because kingship and stinginess do not coexist.

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