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their spending with taunts and insults shall be rewarded by their Lord;
they shall have nothing to fear or to regret.
A kind word and forgiveness are better than charity followed by
injury.Allah is Self-sufficient and Indulgent.
O believers, do not mar your almsgiving with taunts and mischief-
making, like himwho spends his wealth for the sake of ostentation and
believes neither in Allah nor in the Last Day. Such a man is like a
smooth rock covered with earth: a shower falls upon it and leaves it
hard and bare. They shall gain nothing from their works.Allah does not
guide the unbelievers.
But those that give away their wealth from a desire to please Allah
and to reassure their own souls are like a garden on a hill-side: if a
shower falls upon it, it yields up twice its normal crop; and if no rain
falls upon it, it is watered by the dew.Allah takes cognizance of all your
actions.
Would any one of you, being a man well-advanced in age with
helpless children to support, wish to have a garden - a garden of palm-
trees, vines and all manner of fruits, and watered by running streams-
blasted and consumed by a fierywhirlwind?
Thus Allah makes plain to you His revelations, so that you may give
thought.
O believers, spend of the wealth you have lawfully earned and of that
which We have brought out of the earth for you; not worthless things
which you yourselves would only reluctantly accept. Know that Allah
is Self-sufficient andGlorious.
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