Transliteration:( Inna Rabbaka yabsuturrizqa limai yashaaa'u wa yaqdir; innahoo kaana bi'ibaadihee Khabeeran Baseera (section 3) )
"Indeed, your Lord extends provision for whom He wills and restricts it. Indeed, He is Knowing and Seeing of His servants [72]."
Thus, those whom He has kept poor are in that state by His perfect wisdom, and those upon whom He has bestowed wealth are also part of His Divine plan.
Allah’s distribution is not random—it is based on His complete knowledge and full awareness of the needs, conditions, and capacities of His servants.
The tafsir of Surah Al-Isra verse 30 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Isra ayat 29 which provides the complete commentary from verse 29 through 30.
(17:30) Certainly Your Lord makes plentiful the provision of whomsoever He wills and straitens it for whomsoever He wills. He is well-aware and is fully observant of all that relates to His servants.[30]
30. That is, man cannot realize the wisdom of the disparity of wealth among the people. Therefore, man should not try to interfere by artificial means with the natural distribution of wealth. It is wrong to level down natural inequality or to aggravate it by artificial means so as to make it unjust. Both the extremes are wrong. The best economic system is that which is established on the divine Way of the division of wealth.
As a result of the realization of the wisdom of economic disparity, no such problems arose which might have made that disparity an evil in itself so as to demand the creation of a classless society. On the contrary, in the righteous society established at Al-Madinah on these divine principles which are akin to human nature, the economic differences were not artificially disturbed. But by means of moral and legal reforms these became the means of many moral, spiritual and cultural blessings and benefits instead of becoming the means of injustice. Thus, the wisdom of the disparity created by the Creator of the Universe was practically demonstrated at Al-Madinah.
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