Tafseer of The Ascending Stairways · Al-Ma'aarij · 70:20
When evil touches him, impatient,
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His statement: "When evil touches him, full of anguished complaint" (70:20) — he says: when his wealth diminishes and poverty and want afflict him, then he is full of anguished complaint over that, without patience in it:
