Depositories

[Joseph] said, "Appoint me over the storehouses of the land. Indeed, I will be a knowing guardian."

And there is not a thing but that with Us are its depositories, and We do not send it down except according to a known [i.e., specified] measure.

And We have sent the fertilizing winds¹ and sent down water from the sky and given you drink from it. And you are not its retainers.

Say [to them], "If you possessed the depositories of the mercy of my Lord, then you would withhold out of fear of spending." And ever has man been stingy.

So he watered [their flocks] for them; then he went back to the shade and said, "My Lord, indeed I am, for whatever good You would send down to me, in need."