The classical discussion moves from the description of poverty to related questions of control over property, later acquisition, purchase, gifts, and manumission.
The first layer is textual: the described recipients are poor. The next is juristic inference: what this description implies for earlier ownership. Additional legal consequences are then discussed within that historical framework.
Those consequences are not simply translations of the Qur’anic words. They belong to a developed legal analysis, and modern law governing property, conflict, and protection of persons requires separate treatment.