Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “Indeed, those who believe and do righteous deeds will have a reward that is not diminished.”

The Shaykh : I seek refuge in Allah, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing, from Satan, the accursed. Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said: When He mentioned the punishment of the polytheists, He clarified the reward of the believers, because Allah the Exalted revealed this Book in pairs. The matter was thus so that a person would proceed to his Lord between fear and hope. When he hears the punishment of the deniers, he fears, and when he hears the reward of the believers, he hopes. Thus, a person should proceed to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, between fear and hope, as He the Exalted said: However, at times, it may be in the interest to emphasize hope, or it may be in the interest to emphasize fear. If a person’s desire for sin becomes intense, let him emphasize the aspect of fear so that he is deterred from it. And if a person performs an act of worship, let him emphasize the aspect of hope, which is the acceptance of it by Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He. Likewise, it is also necessary for him in the state of illness to turn to Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, and to have a good opinion of Him, as came in the hadith: Blessed and Exalted is He, saying: Allah the Exalted combined between creed and action, between faith and Islam. Creed. Islam. And this, as you see, occurs frequently in the Qur'an. So faith alone is not sufficient; rather, righteous action is necessary for the reward to be obtained. And whenever is mentioned, the meaning is: they believed in what is obligatory to believe in, from the six fundamentals that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) explained to Jibril when he said: This is because the summarized faith in the Qur'an is explained in detail by the Sunnah, because no one is more knowledgeable about the Book of Allah than the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). As for His saying: It is known that "the righteous" is a description of a described entity that is omitted, the estimation being: the righteous deeds. So what are the righteous deeds? The righteous deeds are those that combine two conditions: First: Sincerity for Allah, Mighty and Majestic. Second: Following the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). So every deed in which there is shirk (associating partners with Allah) is not righteous and is returned to its doer, due to the saying of Allah the Exalted in the Qudsi hadith: Likewise, it is necessary to follow the Messenger, for the innovative deed is not accepted even if a person is sincere in it, due to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): Thus, the righteous deeds must include two things: Sincerity for Allah and following the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). This phrase is a statement about , We may say: The fronting of the prepositional phrase indicates restriction, meaning for them and not for others from the deniers or the sinners. Meaning the reward of The exegete says: "not cut off" but it is permanent, as He the Exalted said: And it was said: Not bestowed as a favor, meaning they are given it without any favor, and this is possible. If it is possible and does not contradict the first meaning, then the intended meaning of the verse is both meanings, as we have an important rule in tafsir and also in hadith: If the text allows for two meanings that do not contradict each other, then the text is taken to include both, because Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, knows what His speech allows, and likewise the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). So when neither possibility was specified, it must be comprehensive of both. But if one is stronger than the other, then the stronger is followed. For this reason, we say: The apparent meaning of the text is preferred over the figurative interpretation of the text, and interpretation, as you know, is following the weaker meaning. Thus, Meaning: A reward that is not cut off and a reward that is not bestowed as a favor.