Allah Most High:

“O you who believe, what is the matter with you that, when you are told, ‘Go forth in the cause of Allah,’ you cling heavily to the earth? Are you content with the life of this world rather than the Hereafter? Yet the enjoyment of worldly life is but little compared with the Hereafter.”

“If you do not go forth, He will punish you with a painful punishment and replace you with another people. You will not harm Him at all, and Allah has power over all things.”

Allah Most High also said:

“Here you are, called upon to spend in the cause of Allah, yet some of you are miserly. Whoever is miserly is only miserly at his own expense. Allah is free of all need, while you are the needy. If you turn away, He will replace you with another people, and they will not be like you.”

Allah Most High has also said:

“Those of you who spent and fought before the conquest are not equal to the others. They are greater in rank than those who spent and fought afterwards. Yet Allah has promised the finest reward to them all.”

He thus linked the matter to spending, which is generosity, and fighting, which is courage. Likewise, Allah Most High said in more than one place:

“Strive with your wealth and your lives in the cause of Allah.”

He made clear that miserliness is among the major sins in His saying:

“Let not those who withhold what Allah has given them of His bounty think that it is good for them. Rather, it is bad for them. On the Day of Resurrection, what they withheld will be fastened around their necks.”

And in His saying:

“Those who hoard gold and silver and do not spend it in the cause of Allah—give them tidings of a painful punishment,”

to the end of the verse. The same applies to cowardice, as in the saying of Allah Most High:

“Whoever turns his back to them on that day—unless maneuvering for battle or joining another group—has incurred the wrath of Allah, and his refuge is