«وَلَا اسْتَعَاذَ مِنْ حَسُودٍ رَاشِقِ»
Nor would someone seek refuge from an envious person who launches harmful shafts.
Ḥasūd is the envious person; rāshiq has the sense of one who shoots or casts missiles. The verse makes envy feel like an attack.
The poem’s catalogue moves from theft and injustice through miserliness, withheld dues and envy. Gold functions as a literary emblem of greed’s social consequences, not a literal agent of every offence.
The following phrase «وَشَرُّ مَا فِيهِ مِنَ الْخَلَائِقِ» introduces the culminating harm associated with money in human relations.