Surah Al-Humaza (104) — Ayah 2

(Ayah 2) ➊ {الَّذِيْ جَمَعَ مَالًا وَّ عَدَّدَهٗ:} That is, the real cause of people’s fault-finding, taunting, and belittling others is their excessive desire to accumulate wealth and their intense miserliness. Since this miserliness has left no quality of generosity or compassion in him, he taunts and finds faults with every virtuous person to cover up his own meanness and baseness, so that no one pays attention to condemning his greed and miserliness. The hypocrites used to do the same; it is said: « اَلَّذِيْنَ يَلْمِزُوْنَ الْمُطَّوِّعِيْنَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِيْنَ فِي الصَّدَقٰتِ وَ الَّذِيْنَ لَا يَجِدُوْنَ اِلَّا جُهْدَهُمْ فَيَسْخَرُوْنَ مِنْهُمْ » [ التوبۃ : ۷۹ ] “These are the people who taunt the believing men who give charity willingly, and also those who have nothing except their hard-earned income, so they mock them.” In addition, in order to accumulate as much wealth as possible, he speaks ill of others and finds faults in them, and presents himself as pure and upright, so that people, in every deal and every matter, deal only with him instead of anyone else, and his wealth keeps increasing. If you want to see a clear picture of {’’ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ‘‘}, just read the statements of candidates standing in democratic elections, and see how much taunting and slander they do against their rivals to win the seat.

➋ That is, the wealth which was a means to fulfill human needs and obtain comfort, has now become his main objective. Now he is obsessed with accumulating it and counting it over and over.