Tafsir for verse: 24:38
لِيَجۡزِيَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ أَحۡسَنَ مَا عَمِلُواْ وَيَزِيدَهُم مِّن فَضۡلِهِۦۗ وَٱللَّهُ يَرۡزُقُ مَن يَشَآءُ بِغَيۡرِ حِسَابٖ ٣٨ ﴿38
38The fate (of such people) is that Allah will reward them for the best deeds they did, and will give them more out of His grace. Allah gives whom He wills without counting.
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Commentary

And when the Exalted clarified the actions of these men, which they approached Him with, and turned away from what is besides it, He clarified their ultimate goal in it by saying: ﴿So that He may reward them﴾ meaning they do that so that ﴿Allah﴾ may reward them, that is in the abode of His honor after resurrection, with His greatness, majesty, and generosity, and beauty. ﴿He has rewarded them with the best of what they did﴾ meaning His reward. And He may forgive them their evil deeds ﴿and increase them from His bounty﴾ beyond the just reward of what they do not deserve - as is the habit of the generous.

And when the estimation is: Indeed, Allah, due to His majesty, greatness, and perfection, does not accept to limit the reward of the doer of good to what he deserves only, He added a clarification that His power and greatness have no limit with His saying: ﴿And Allah﴾ meaning (p-282) the One who has no equal, so there is no objection against Him ﴿provides for whom He wills﴾. And when the meaning is: a provision that exceeds the limit and surpasses the count, He expressed it with His saying: ﴿Without account﴾, for it is a metaphor for abundance. And it is permissible that along with the abundance, there is also success, so it may be a glad tidings of the negation of accounting in the Hereafter as well, fundamentally and primarily, because that provision is not earned by him, so he will not be held accountable, or he will be held accountable but not punished; thus the intended meaning of the negation of accounting is the negation of its difficulty and punishment. And it is permissible that the provision be sufficient, and it has been reported that there is no accounting in it; Ibn Kathir narrated from Ibn Abi Hatim with his chain from Asma bint Yazid, may Allah be pleased with her, who said: The Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, said: "When Allah gathers the first and the last on the Day of Resurrection, a caller will call out with a voice that the creatures will hear: The people of the gathering will know who is most deserving of generosity, let those who are not distracted by trade or selling from the remembrance of Allah stand, and they will stand while they are few, then the rest of the creatures will be held accountable."

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