Tafsir of An-Najm 53:34

And gave a little, then stopped, Ibn Abbas said, "Gave a little, then stopped giving.'' Similar was said by Mujahid, Sa`id bin Jubayr, Ikrimah, Qatadah and several others. Ikrimah and Sa`id said: "Like the case of a people who dig a well, during the course of which they find a rock preventing them from completing their work. So they say, `We are finished' and they abandon the work.'' Allah's statement,

أعنده علم الغيب فهو يرى