إِن يَسۡـَٔلۡكُمُوهَا فَيُحۡفِكُمۡ تَبۡخَلُواْ وَيُخۡرِجۡ أَضۡغَٰنَكُمۡ ٣٧
If He should ask you for them and press you, you would withhold, and He would expose your hatred [i.e., unwillingness].
Translation: Saheeh International (English)
Word by word
Each word's meaning and sound
- إِنIfin
- يَسۡـَٔلۡكُمُوهَاHe were to ask you for ityasalkumūhā
- فَيُحۡفِكُمۡand press youfayuḥ'fikum
- تَبۡخَلُواْyou will withholdtabkhalū
- وَيُخۡرِجۡand He will bring forthwayukh'rij
- أَضۡغَٰنَكُمۡyour hatredaḍghānakum
Tafsir
If He had to ask you for all of your wealth and insist in this request from you, you will become miserly with it, and He will bring out the greed and miserliness in your hearts. Thus that fact He is not asking it from you is out of kindness.
Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran