Al-Munaafiqoon (The Hypocrites)

7. They are the ones who say: “Spend not on those who are with Allah's Messenger so that they desert him.” And to Allah belong the treasures of the heavens and the earth, but the hypocrites comprehend not.

The Arabic word khaza’in is the plural form of khazina (“treasure”). One of the stratagems devised by enemies is to boycott the believers and lead them to dire straits. The blessed Verse is saying that the hypocrites asked each other not to render aid to the Noble Prophet (S) so that his followers may abandon him.

It was in this vein that Mu‘awiya issued a decree as per which the followers of Imam ‘Ali (as) were deprived of the public Muslim treasury (bayt al-mal)¹ and the adherents of Imam Husayn (as) were denied of water at Karbala’. In modern times, superpowers employ economic sanctions and pressures to make the nations submit to their will.