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allāhu yabsuṭu r-rizqa li-man yashāʾu min ʿibādihī wa-yaqdiru lahū ʾinna llāha bi-kulli shayʾin ʿalīmun
Allah expands the provision for whomever He wishes of His servants, and tightens it for him. Indeed Allah has knowledge of all things.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Al-‘Ankabut - Verse 62
62. “Allah enlarges the sustenance for whichever of His servants He pleases, and He grants him by (strict) measure, (as He pleases); verily Allah is Well-Cognizant of all things.”
Increasing and decreasing men’s sustenance is knowingly and wisely done by Allah (s.w.t.) on the base of seen and unseen criterions. Some Islamic traditions indicate that the common good of some servants of Allah is in that they have vast sustenance and if they fall in the straitened circumstances of life, they become corruptive. On the contrary, the common good of another group is that they have a strict measure of sustenance, and if they are granted plenty of it, they will fall in decadence.
Therefore, in this verse the Qur’an says:
The key of sustenance is in His hand, not in the hand of men, nor with idols. That in the former verses it was said that the true believers rely only on Him is for this very fact that the authority of all things is with Him. Then why should they fear to express forth and sometimes think that their life is in danger from the side of their enemies? If they believe that Allah is powerful but He is not aware of their state, they are in a great error, because:
Is it possible that someone is the creator and the administrator of the affairs and whose favour reaches to the creatures, and in the meantime He is not aware of their circumstance? This is not imaginable.