It is you who are asked to spend for the cause of God, but some of you behave in a niggardly way. Whoever behaves miserly does so against his own soul. God is Self-sufficient and you are poor. If you were to turn away from Him, He would just replace you with another people, who will not be like you.
شما همان [مردمى‌] هستيد كه براى انفاق در راه خدا فرا خوانده شده‌ايد. پس برخى از شما بخل مى‌ورزند، و هر كس بخل ورزد تنها به زيان خود بخل ورزيده، و [گرنه‌] خدا بى‌نياز است و شما نيازمنديد؛ و اگر روى برتابيد [خدا] جاى شما را به مردمى غير از شما خواهد داد كه مانند شما نخواهند بود.