Al-Alaq • EN-AL-JALALAYN
﴿ أَن رَّءَاهُ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰٓ ﴾
“whenever he believes himself to be self-sufficient:”
when he sees it that is to say his own soul to be self-sufficient in terms of wealth — this was revealed regarding Abū Jahl ra’ā ‘sees’ means to see mentally; istaghnā ‘self-sufficient’ is the second direct object; an ra’āhu ‘when he sees it’ is an object denoting reason.