ٱلنَّحْل : ٧١

  • وَٱللَّهُ And Allah
  • فَضَّلَ has favored
  • بَعۡضَكُمۡ some of you
  • عَلَىٰ over
  • بَعۡضٖ others
  • فِي in
  • ٱلرِّزۡقِۚ [the] provision
  • فَمَا But not
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • فُضِّلُواْ were favored
  • بِرَآدِّي would hand over
  • رِزۡقِهِمۡ their provision
  • عَلَىٰ to
  • مَا whom
  • مَلَكَتۡ possess
  • أَيۡمَٰنُهُمۡ their right hands
  • فَهُمۡ so (that) they
  • فِيهِ (are) in it
  • سَوَآءٌۚ equal
  • أَفَبِنِعۡمَةِ Then is it the Favor
  • ٱللَّهِ of Allah
  • يَجۡحَدُونَ they reject
And Allāh has favored some of you over others in provision. But those who were favored [i.e., given more] would not hand over their provision to those whom their right hands possess [i.e., slaves] so they would be equal to them therein.1 Then is it the favor of Allāh they reject?
Footnotes
1 The argument presented in this verse is that if they cannot consider their own possessions equal to themselves, then how can they consider Allāh's creations as being equal to Him?
And God has favoured some of you above others in [respect of] provision, thus, some of you are poor, some are rich, some owners, others are owned. Now those who have been [more] favoured, namely, the masters, would not hand over their provision to those [slaves] whom their right hands possess, that is, they would not assign that wealth and other things which We have given them as something to be shared [equally] between them and their slaves, so that they, that is, the slaves and [their] masters, become equal, partners, in respect thereof. The meaning is: they do not have partners from among their slaves in respect of their wealth, so how can they make certain of God's servants partners of His? Is it then the grace of God that they deny?, [that] they reject, when they ascribe partners to Him?