مَّا أَفَاء اللَّهُ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْقُرَى فَلِلَّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ وَلِذِي الْقُرْبَى وَالْيَتَامَى وَالْمَسَاكِينِ وَابْنِ السَّبِيلِ
كَيْ لَا يَكُونَ دُولَةً بَيْنَ الْأَغْنِيَاء مِنكُمْ وَمَا آتَاكُمُ الرَّسُولُ فَخُذُوهُ وَمَا نَهَاكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانتَهُوا وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ شَدِيدُ الْعِقَابِ
59:7 Whatever [spoils taken] from the people of those villages God has turned over to His Apostle -
[all of it] belongs to God and the Apostle,
and the near of kin [of deceased believers],
and the orphans, and the needy,
and the wayfarer,
so that it may not be [a benefit] going round and round among such of you as may [already] be rich.
Hence, accept [willingly] whatever the Apostle* gives you [thereof],
and refrain from [demanding] anything that he withholds from you;
and remain conscious of God:
for, verily, God is severe in retribution.
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Transliteration
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Ma afaa Allahu AAala rasoolihi min ahli alqura falillahi walilrrasooli walithee alqurba waalyatama waalmasakeeni waibni alssabeeli kay la yakoona doolatan bayna alaghniyai minkum wama atakumu alrrasoolu fakhuthoohu wama nahakum AAanhu faintahoo waittaqoo Allaha inna Allaha shadeedu alAAiqabi
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The following quotation
"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer"
is an aphorism due to Percy Bysshe Shelley.
In A Defence of Poetry (1821, not published until 1840) Shelley remarked that the promoters of utility had
exemplified the saying,
“To him that hath, more shall be given; and from him that hath not, the little that he hath shall be taken away.”
The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the State is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
"To him that hath" etc. is a reference to Matthew 25:29 (the parable of the talents, see also Matthew effect).
The aphorism is commonly evoked, with variations in wording, as a synopsis of the effect of free market capitalism producing inequality.
