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Surah Fussilat — 41:7

ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْتُونَ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَهُم بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ هُمْ كَـٰفِرُونَ

Allazeena laa yu'toonaz Zakaata wa hum bil-Aakhiratihum kaafiroon

those who do not give the purifying alms, and who deny the hereafter.

Reflection

Readers have taken zakat here in two senses: the alms proper, and, since the root carries growth and purification, a purifying of the self that never took place. Either sense sharpens the description, because the woe a line earlier lands on people who give God partners, and what gets named here is a withheld hand and a denied hereafter, with the idols left out of it.

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