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فَأَمَّا ٱلإِنسَانُ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلاَهُ رَبُّهُ فَأَكْرَمَهُ وَنَعَّمَهُ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّيۤ أَكْرَمَنِ
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-Al-Fajr ( الفجر )

Tafsir al-Tustari

And as for man, whenever his Lord tries him with honour and blessings, he says, ‘My Lord has honoured me.’He said:This means, there will be among the believers one who, when his Lord tests him with blessings, says, ‘My Lord has honoured me in the abundance (saʿa) and provision (rizq) that He has given me.’ However, this is really a way of leaving him to degenerate further (istidrāj), and a source of delusion (ightirār). Indeed, Ḥasan once said, ‘The servant remains in a good state as long as he is aware of that which corrupts his works. Among them [God’s servants] is he whose [action] is made to appear beautiful to him, and among them is he who has been dominated by lust (shahwa).


Tafsīr al-Tustarī, trans. Annabel Keeler and Ali Keeler
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