The reason for naming spending a loan in the saying of the Exalted: {Who is it that will lend to Allah}
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The Shaykh : Allah named spending for His sake a loan because it is known that the borrower is committed to what? To repayment. So it is as if Allah the Exalted is saying: What you spend for My sake is like a loan you lend, which must be returned to you. And just as Allah named the reward a wage, like a hired worker whose wage becomes obligatory when he completes his work, this is from the favor of Allah the Exalted. How abundant is the favor of Allah! Look at His saying, the Exalted: [Ar-Rahman 55:60] The first excellence is the deed, and the second excellence is the reward.
Who is the one who showed excellence first and second? Allah the Exalted. And yet He made the human being's excellence an excellence for which he is rewarded with excellence. This is like His saying:[Al-Insan 76:22] Allah the Exalted says this regarding something for which He is the one who grants us success and helps us, but this is from the effects of His generosity and His bounty, Blessed and Exalted is He.
Is the reward for good [anything] but good?
هل جزاء الإحسان إلا الإحسانWho is the one who showed excellence first and second? Allah the Exalted. And yet He made the human being's excellence an excellence for which he is rewarded with excellence. This is like His saying:
