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لِّكَيْلاَ تَأْسَوْاْ عَلَىٰ مَا فَاتَكُمْ وَلاَ تَفْرَحُواْ بِمَآ آتَاكُمْ وَٱللَّهُ لاَ يُحِبُّ كُلَّ مُخْتَالٍ فَخُورٍ
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Tafsir al-Jalalayn

so that you may not (kay-lā: kay makes a verb subjunctive, with the same sense as an [as in an-lā, ‘so that … not’]), that is to say, God informs [you] of this so that you may not, grieve for what escapes you, nor exult, with a wanton exultation, rather an exultation that is [followed by] a thanksgiving for the grace, at what He has given you (read [thus] as ātākum; or read as atākum, meaning, ‘[at] what has come to you from Him’). For God does not like any swaggering braggart, [swaggering] in arrogance because of what he has been given, [boastful] of it to people;


Tafsir al-Jalalayn, trans. Feras Hamza
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