(fakr-i dhāt; ginā min al-ʿibād; ginā al-khalq; kānīʿ)
Here, what is meant by fakr is not to be in need of material things.
Fakr (spiritual poverty) is the robe of honor, the garment of the prophets, the covering of the righteous (ṣāliḥ), the crown of the God-conscious (muttaqī), the adornment of the believers (muʾmin), the bounty of the gnostics (ʿārif), the admonisher of the aspirants (murīd), the fortress of the obedient, the prison of the sinners, that which rejects evil, magnifies good deeds, elevates ranks, leads to goals, is the contentment (riḍā) of the Compeller (al-Jabbār, i.e., Allah), and a karāma (a saintly wonder) for the ebrār (the righteous servants) who are worthy of His friendship. Fakr is the emblem of the righteous (ṣāliḥ) and the habit of the God-conscious (muttaqī). (Lumaʿ, 74)
Fakr and ginā (spiritual wealth) are two ḥāl (spiritual states). The servant should not be attached to them. Rather, what is required of the servant is to transcend them and not to remain there. This is according to the people of ḥaqīqa (inner reality) and maʿrifa (gnosis). The rulings of ḥaqīqa are in the outcomes, not in the states encountered along the way (the aim is not to be preoccupied with the states on the path, but to reach the ḥaqīqa).
Another group, thinking that the one who says this equates fakr and ginā, has said: There is no difference between fakr and ginā except in that they are both ḥāl (spiritual states). (Lumaʿ, 521)
Abū Muḥammad Jarīrī said: Fakr is not to desire what is absent (mādūm) until you have lost what is present (mawjūd). Its meaning is this: You only seek provision when you fear that you will be unable to fulfill the obligatory acts (farḍ) due to incapacity.
Ibn Jallāʾ also said, even if they themselves are in necessity, they prefer others to themselves. According to the verse: "..." (reference to the verse is incomplete in the source), fakr is that you do not possess; and if you do, it is not truly yours.
Muḥammad Ruwaym Muḥammad said: Fakr is the absence of every existent, and the abandonment of every non-existent (mafkūd).
Kinānī said: When the need for Allah is firmly established, ginā with Allah is also firmly established; for these are two states, one of which does not exist without the other.
(Abū Ḥusayn) Nūrī said: The attribute of the faqīr (the one in fakr) is tranquility in the state of absence; existence ...