Transliteration:( Wa laa tahaaaddoona 'alaata'aamil miskeen )
18. It means that neither do you donate food, nor create desire in others for it; in fact you stop them from this charity.
From this emerge a few issues:
1. Generosity is a praiseworthy attribute, but miserliness is a vice.
2. Donations of edible things is superior to other charities as it helps to save lives, so much so, that feeding animals, too, is an act of reward, and feeding a hungry human being is indeed a praiseworthy act. Â
3. Halting charities under some pretext, to stop the giving of charity are ways of the infidels.Â
4. Even the infidels are duty bound to generosity as they had been censured for their miserliness. But this hardship is not of religious nature. For this reason they are not duty-bound to pay their Zakaat which they had not paid prior to accepting Islam.Â
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The tafsir of Surah Fajr verse 18 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Fajr ayat 15 which provides the complete commentary from verse 15 through 21.
(89:18) and do not urge one another to feed the poor,[12]
12. That is, nobody in your society feels any urge to feed the poor. Neither a man himself feels inclined to feed a hungry person, nor is there among the people any urge to do something to satisfy the hunger of the hungry, nor do they exhort one another to do so.
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