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The Jews said, when their circumstances became straitened, on account of their denial of the Prophet "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" , after having been the wealthiest of people: 'Allah’s hand is fettered', withholding the sending forth of provision upon us - this was their metaphor for niggardliness - may Allahu ta’ālā be exalted above this. Allahu ta’ālā, exalted be He, says: Fettered be, withheld be, their hands, from the performance of good deeds, as an invocation against them; and they are cursed for what they have said. Nay, but His hands are extended out wide - a hyperbole for the attribute of generosity - the use of [yadā] the dual for yad, 'hand', is intended to imply abundance, since the utmost that an affluent person can give freely of his wealth is when he gives it with both hands. He expends how He will, in giving abundantly or straitening, and there can be no objection to this. And what has been revealed to you from your Rabb, of the Qur'ān, will surely increase many of them in insolence and disbelief, because of their [very] disbelief in it; and We have cast between them enmity and hatred until the Day of Resurrection, and so every sect among them is opposed to the other. Every time they light the fires of war, that is, for war against the Prophet "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" , Allahu ta’ālā extinguishes them, that is, every time they desire it [war], He repels them. And they hasten about the earth in corruption, that is, [they hasten about] corrupting, through acts of disobedience, and Allahu ta’ālā does not love corrupters, meaning that He will punish them.