ٱلْأَنْعَام : ٥٣

  • وَكَذَٰلِكَ And thus
  • فَتَنَّا We try
  • بَعۡضَهُم some of them
  • بِبَعۡضٖ with others
  • لِّيَقُولُوٓاْ that they say
  • أَهَٰٓؤُلَآءِ Are these
  • مَنَّ (whom has been) favored
  • ٱللَّهُ (by) Allah
  • عَلَيۡهِم [upon them]
  • مِّنۢ from
  • بَيۡنِنَآۗ among us
  • أَلَيۡسَ is not
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah
  • بِأَعۡلَمَ most knowing
  • بِٱلشَّـٰكِرِينَ of those who are grateful
And thus We have tried some of them through others that they [i.e., the disbelievers] might say, "Is it these whom Allāh has favored among us?" Is not Allāh most knowing of those who are grateful?1
Footnotes
1 - Those referred to in verses 52-54 are the poor Muslims who were sincere believers and students of the Prophet (ﷺ). The influential leaders of Quraysh had disdained to sit with them, saying to Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ), "Perhaps if you evicted them, we would follow you."
And even so We have tried, We have tested, some of them by others, that is, the noble one by the commoner, the rich man by the poor man, preferring the [latter] one by giving [him] precedence in [attaining] faith, so that they, the noble ones and the rich, may say, in disavowal, 'Are these, the poor, the ones whom God has favoured from among us?', with guidance? In other words [so that they may say]: if what they follow is [true] guidance, they would not have preceded us [in attaining it]. God, exalted be He, says: Is God not best aware of those who are thankful?, to Him, to guide them? Indeed [He is].