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Surah 89. Al-Fajr, Ayah 16

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وَأَمَّآ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَهَـٰنَنِ
Waamm a i tha m a ibtal a hu faqadara AAalayhi rizqahu fayaqoolu rabbee ah a nan i
whereas, whenever He tries him by straitening his means of livelihood, he says, "My Sustainer has disgraced me!"10
  - Mohammad Asad

I.e., he regards the absence or loss of affluence not as a trial, but as an evidence of divine "injustice" - which, in its turn, may lead to a denial of God's existence.

But when He tries him through restricting his subsistence, he says: "My Rabb has humiliated me."
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
But when He tests them by limiting their provision, they protest, 'My Lord has 'undeservedly' humiliated me!'
  - Mustafa Khattab
But whenever He trieth him by straitening his means of life, he saith: My Lord despiseth me.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
But when He trieth him restricting his subsistence for him then saith he (in despair) "My Lord hath humiliated me!" 6120
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Subsistence, in both the literal and the figurative sense. Allah provides for all, but people complain if the provision is measured and restricted to their needs, circumstances, and antecedents, and does not come up to their desires or expectations, or is different from that given to people in quite different circumstances.

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