"And do not keep your hand tied to your neck, nor extend it to the full extent, lest you should be sitting reproached, empty handed." (Surah Bani Isra'il:29)
This verse teaches us to spend moderately and justly, so that a person neither become so miserly that he doesn't even spend to help people in genuine need or on people who are dependent upon him, nor so spendthrift that he creates problems for himself and is unable to fulfil rights of people who are dependent upon him.
In the end this verse prohibits spending recklessly to the extent that one spends everything one has without any regard for what would happen in the future. Then when needy people come asking for help he is unable to help them, and if there is an important religious need he has nothing left to spend on it. (Qurtubi), or he may become incapable of fulfilling the rights of his family who are dependent on him, and whose rights he is bound by Shariah to fulfil. (Mazhari) Explaining the words ملوماً محسوراً Tafsir Mazhari says that the first word ملوم (malum) refers to the first condition, that is, miserliness, meaning if he were to hold back on giving out of miserliness people will reproach him. And the word محسور (mahsura) relates to the second condition that one spends so recklessly that he ends up empty handed and a pauper.
Abstracted from Ma'ariful Quran, Interpretation of Surah Bani Isra'il, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE
This verse teaches us to spend moderately and justly, so that a person neither become so miserly that he doesn't even spend to help people in genuine need or on people who are dependent upon him, nor so spendthrift that he creates problems for himself and is unable to fulfil rights of people who are dependent upon him.
In the end this verse prohibits spending recklessly to the extent that one spends everything one has without any regard for what would happen in the future. Then when needy people come asking for help he is unable to help them, and if there is an important religious need he has nothing left to spend on it. (Qurtubi), or he may become incapable of fulfilling the rights of his family who are dependent on him, and whose rights he is bound by Shariah to fulfil. (Mazhari) Explaining the words ملوماً محسوراً Tafsir Mazhari says that the first word ملوم (malum) refers to the first condition, that is, miserliness, meaning if he were to hold back on giving out of miserliness people will reproach him. And the word محسور (mahsura) relates to the second condition that one spends so recklessly that he ends up empty handed and a pauper.
Abstracted from Ma'ariful Quran, Interpretation of Surah Bani Isra'il, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE
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