An-Naml • EN-TAFSIR-AL-TUSTARI
﴿ وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى ٱلنَّاسِ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَشْكُرُونَ ﴾
“Now, verily, thy Sustainer is indeed limitless in His bounty unto men - but most of them are bereft of gratitude.”
And surely your Lord is bountiful to mankind�He said:His withholding (manʿ) is a bounty (faḍl), just as His giving (ʿaṭāʾ) is a bounty, but it is only the elite among the friends [of God] (awliyāʾ) who know the situations in which deprivation is a bounty.His words, Exalted is He: