سورة الإسراء

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): قُلْ لَوْ أَنْتُمْ تَمْلِکُونَ [Say: if you owned] — if the wealth and possessions of the world were in the hands of people, out of fear of poverty they would not give anything to anyone else. وَ کَانَ الإنسَانُ قَتُورًا [and man is niggardly] means stingy.

Imam Sajjad (peace be upon him): The supplication for [increase of] provision and sustenance narrated from Imam Sajjad (peace be upon him): "O Allah, You asked Your servants for a loan from that which You had bestowed upon them, You guaranteed them its replacement, and You promised them a fair reward for it, yet they were stingy towards You. So how will they behave with one who is lesser than You when he asks something of them? Woe to the one whose need is to them! I take refuge in You, O my Master, from being handed over by You to any of them. Indeed, if they possessed the treasuries of Your mercy they would withhold them out of fear of spending, lest spending become the cause of their poverty, just as You Yourself described them and said: وَ کانَ الْإِنْسانُ قَتُوراً [and man is niggardly]."

Ibn Abbas (may Allah have mercy on him): کانَ الْإِنْسانُ قَتُوراً [and man is niggardly] — that is, man is stingy.