Bismillahir
Rahmanir Raheem
Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barkatuh!
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate!
O Believers, do not spoil your charity
by taunts and injury to the recipients
like the one who practises charity to be seen by men,
while he neither believes in Allah
nor in the Last Day.*
His charity may be likened to the rainfall on a rock
which had only a thin layer of soil upon it.
When heavy rain fell on it,
the whole of the soil washed away
and the rock was left bare.*
Such people do not gain the reward they imagine they have earned by their
seeming charity;
Allah does not show the Right Way to the ungrateful.*
(Surah-2 Al-Baqarah ~ Ayah-264)
Explanation:
*1-
The desire to display one's good deeds itself proves that the person
concerned does not truly believe in Allah and the Hereafter. One who
does good merely in order to impress people with his righteousness
clearly regards those persons as his god. Such a person neither expects
reward from Allah nor is he concerned that his good deeds will some day
be reckoned to his credit.
*2- In this parable, 'heavy rain' signifies charity, and 'rock' the
wicked intent and motive which lie behind external acts of charity. The
expression, 'with a thin coating of earth upon it' signifies the
external aspect of charity which conceals the wicked intent and motive
of a man. These explanations make the significance and purport of the
parable clear. The natural effect of rainfall should be the growth of
plants and harvest. But if the earth, which is the repository of
fertility, is insignificant in quantity, for example only a coating of
it on some rock, the result will be that instead of yielding any
beneficial result the rainfall may even prove harmful. Similarly,
charity has the capacity to generate goodness and benevolence in human
beings. Man's potential for goodness, however, is conditional on
sincerity. Devoid of that charity leads to sheer loss and waste.
*3- Here the term kafir is used in the sense of the ungrateful person
who refuses to acknowledge benevolence. People who either make use of
the bounties of Allah in order to seek the gratitude of Allah's
creatures rather than Allah's good pleasure, or who spend on others and
then hurt them by stressing their acts of benevolence and kindness, are
ungrateful to Allah for His bounties and favours. Since such people do
not seek to please Allah, Allah does not care to direct them to the way
that leads to His good pleasure.
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grant us good in this world
and good in the hereafter,
and save us from the chastisement of the fire
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