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Surah 20. Ta-Ha, Ayah 131

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وَلَا تَمُدَّنَّ عَيْنَيْكَ إِلَىٰ مَا مَتَّعْنَا بِهِۦٓ أَزْوَٰجًا مِّنْهُمْ زَهْرَةَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا لِنَفْتِنَهُمْ فِيهِ ۚ وَرِزْقُ رَبِّكَ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰ Qur’an Ta-Ha (20:131)
Wal a tamuddanna AAaynayka il a m a mattaAAn a bihi azw a jan minhum zahrata al h ay a ti a l dduny a linaftinahum feehi warizqu rabbika khayrun waabq a
And never turn shine eyes [with longing] towards whatever splendour of this world's life We may have allowed so many others115 to enjoy in order that We might test them thereby: for the sustenance which by sustainer provides [for thee] is better more enduring.116
  - Mohammad Asad
Mohammad Asad

Implying that whatever God grants a person is an outcome of divine wisdom and, therefore, truly appropriate to the destiny which God has decreed for that person. Alternatively, the phrase may be understood as referring to the life to come and the spiritual sustenance which God bestows upon the righteous.

Lit., "groups [or "kinds"] of them" (azwajan minhum). According to most of the commentators, this relates to the deniers of the truth spoken of in the preceding passages; but since the above injunction has obviously a wider purport, condemning envy in general, I have rendered this expression as "so many others".

Do not strain your eyes with envy regarding the worldly benefits We have bestowed on some among them, for with these We seek to test them, the lawful provision of your Rabb is better and more lasting.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Do not let your eyes crave what We have allowed some of the disbelievers to enjoy; the 'fleeting' splendour of this worldly life, which We test them with. But your Lord's provision 'in the Hereafter' is far better and more lasting.
  - Mustafa Khattab
Mustafa Khattab
And strain not thine eyes toward that which We cause some wedded pairs among them to enjoy, the flower of the life of the world, that We may try them thereby. The provision of thy Lord is better and more lasting.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Marmaduke Pickthall
Nor strain thine eyes in longing for the things We have given for enjoyment to parties of them the splendor of the life of this world through which We test them: but the provision of thy Lord is better and more enduring. 2656
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The good things of this life make a brave show, but they are as nothing compared with the good of the Hereafter. Both are provided by Allah. But the former are given to the just and the unjust as a test and trial, and in any case will pass away; while the latter come specially from Allah for His devoted servants, and are incomparably of more value and will last through eternity.

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