Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “Whoever desires the harvest of the Hereafter, We will increase for him in his harvest. And whoever desires the harvest of this world, We will give him thereof, but he will have no share in the Hereafter.”

The Shaykh : It is not hidden from any of us, in terms of grammar, that the “man” here is conditional, and the evidence is His saying: where the response came in the jussive form. This indicates that the verb of the condition is in the past tense and the response is in the present tense. The past tense is due to His saying: The response is: And likewise the reverse; the verb of the condition may be in the present tense and the response in the past tense, such as: “Whoever is grateful to Allah, Allah will increase for him.”