Surah Muhammad Tafseer

إِن يَسْأَلْكُمُوهَا فَيُحْفِكُمْ تَبْخَلُوا

If He would demand of you all of it and urge you, you would withhold.

meaning, if He pressures you much, you would become stingy.

وَيُخْرِجْ أَضْغَانَكُمْ

And He will expose your (secret) ill-wills.

Qatadah said,

"Allah knows that extracting wealth (i.e., money from people) brings about ill-wills."

Indeed, Qatadah has said the truth, because money is dear to the people, and they do not spend it except in things that are dearer to them than it.

Allah then says