Quran Universe
38:54

إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَرِزۡقُنَا مَا لَهُۥ مِن نَّفَادٍ

Inna hatha larizquna ma lahu min nafadin

Indeed, this is Our provision; for it there is no depletion.

Word by word
  1. إِنَّIndeed
  2. هَٰذَاthis
  3. لَرِزۡقُنَا(is) surely Our provision
  4. مَاnot
  5. لَهُۥfor it
  6. مِنany
  7. نَّفَادٍdepletion
Sad · 38:54Makkah

Our provision, which never runs out.

What lasts versus what drains away

Two kinds of provision
what is with youwill be exhausted
versus
what is with Allahremains, never ends
What runs out
the end of the montheverything here
no depletiona gift without end

Allah says Paradise will never come to an end or disappear. Ibn Kathir links it to the verse that whatever is with you will be exhausted, and whatever is with Allah will remain, and to a gift without end.

Payday, then two weeks later the account is thin again. The holiday ends. The new phone gets old. Nothing here is built to last. What Allah provides there does not run out.

Security means building up enough here so it does not run out.

Everything here runs out. Only what is with Allah never ends.

Try this

Move a small amount from what runs out into charity, which lasts with Allah.

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Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (shared passage from 38:49)

And verily, for those who have Taqwa is a good final return (49)'Adn Paradise, whose doors will be opened for them (50)Therein they will recline; therein they will call for fruits in abundance and drinks (51)And beside them will be Qasirat-at-Tarf, (and) of equal ages (52)This it is what you are promised for the Day of Reckoning (53)(It will be said to them)! Verily, this is Our provision which will never finish (54)

The Final Return of the Blessed

Allah tells us that His blessed, believing servants will have a good final return in the Hereafter, which means their ultimate destination. Then He explains it further, as He says:

جَنَّاتِ عَدْنٍ 

('Adn Gardens) meaning, eternal gardens (of Paradise),

مُفَتَّحَةً لَهُمُ الْأَبْوَابُ 

(whose doors will be opened for them.) means, when they come to them (these gardens), their gates will open for them.

مُتَّكِئِينَ فِيهَا

(Therein they will recline;) It was said that this means that they will sit cross-legged on chairs beneath canopies.

يَدْعُونَ فِيهَا بِفَاكِهَةٍ كَثِيرَةٍ 

(therein they will call for fruits in abundance) means, whatever they ask for, they will find it, and it will be prepared just as they wanted it.

وَشَرَابٍ

(and drinks;) means, whatever kind of drink they want, the servants will bring it to them,

بِأَكْوَابٍ وَأَبَارِيقَ وَكَأْسٍ مِنْ مَعِينٍ

(With cups, and jugs, and a glass of flowing wine.)(56: 18).

وَعِنْدَهُمْ قَاصِرَاتُ الطَّرْفِ

(And beside them will be Qasirat-at-Tarf (chaste females)) means, they restrain their glances from anyone except their husbands, and do not turn to anyone else.

أَتْرَابٌ

((and) of equal ages.) means, they will all be of the same age. This is the understanding of Ibn 'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, Mujahid, Sa'id bin Jubayr, Muhammad bin Ka'b and As-Suddi.

هَٰذَا مَا تُوعَدُونَ لِيَوْمِ الْحِسَابِ

(This it is what you are promised for the Day of Reckoning!) means, 'this that We have mentioned of the features of Paradise is what He has prepared for His pious servants who will reach it after they have been resurrected from their graves and been saved from the Fire.' Then Allah tells us that Paradise will never come to an end or disappear or cease to be. He says:

إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَرِزْقُنَا مَا لَهُ مِنْ نَفَادٍ

(Verily, this is Our provision which will never finish.) This is like the Ayat:

مَا عِنْدَكُمْ يَنْفَدُ ۖ وَمَا عِنْدَ اللَّهِ بَاقٍ ۗ 

(Whatever is with you, will be exhausted, and whatever is with Allah will remain)(16:96).

عَطَاءً غَيْرَ مَجْذُوذٍ 

(a gift without an end.)(11:108)

لَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍ

(for them is a reward that will never come to an end.)(84:25).

أُكُلُهَا دَائِمٌ وَظِلُّهَا ۚ تِلْكَ عُقْبَى الَّذِينَ اتَّقَوْا ۖ وَعُقْبَى الْكَافِرِينَ النَّارُ

(its provision is eternal and so is its shade; this is the end of those who have Taqwa, and the end (final destination) of the disbelievers is Fire.)(13:35). And there are many similar Ayat.