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SOME SECRETS OF THE QUR'AN

repaid to you in full. You will not be wronged.
(Surat al-Anfal: 60)
Say: 'My Lord expands the provision of any of His
servants as He wills or restricts it. But He will
replace anything you spend. He is the Best of
Providers.' (Surah Saba': 39)

Believers desire to earn only God's good pleasure and
paradise when they give away their properties and extend
themselves; but as a secret revealed by God, whatever they
spend is paid back to them. As stated in the verse, God
replaces what is spent. These repayments are both blessings
in the world and, above all else, gifts in paradise God has
prepared for believers. On the other hand, contrary to those
who give away, God lessens the provision of those people
who are miserly in giving away their wealth or who desire to
accumulate more wealth by disregarding the limits of God.
One of the relevant verses relates the state of those who
charge interest:
God obliterates usury but makes deeds of charity
grow in value! God does not love any persistently
ungrateful wrongdoer. (Surat al-Baqara: 276)

God informs about the abundance that those who give
away their properties attain as follows:
The metaphor of those who spend their wealth in
the Way of God is that of a grain which produces
seven ears; in every ear there are a hundred grains.
God gives such multiplied increase to whomever He
wills. God is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing.
(Surat al-Baqara: 261)
You who believe! Do not nullify your charity by