The good deed: prosperity, abundance, victory, spoils, and similar benefits. The bad deed: what is the opposite of that.

This is a clarification of their extreme enmity, as they envy them for the good that has befallen them and gloat over the hardships that have afflicted them. If you say: How is the good deed described as 'touch' and the bad deed as 'affliction'? [Mahamud said: "If you say: How is the good deed described as 'touch' and the bad deed as 'affliction'... etc." Ahmad said: It can be said that 'touch' is less intense than 'affliction', and it is as if it is a lower degree of it. So the meaning of the words, and Allah knows best, is that if a good deed touches you, the slightest affliction will upset them and they will envy you for it. If affliction becomes intense and reaches a point where the gloaters lament it, they do not lament for you nor cease their envy even in this situation, rather they rejoice and are pleased, and Allah knows best.] I say: 'touch' is borrowed to mean 'affliction', so the meaning is the same. Do you not see His saying: (If a good deed touches you, it upsets them, and if an affliction touches you) and (Whatever good befalls you is from Allah, and whatever bad befalls you is from yourself) and (When evil touches him, he is despairing, and when good touches him, he withholds).

And if you endure their enmity and avoid what you have been forbidden regarding befriending them. Or if you endure the burdens of religion and its hardships and fear Allah in your avoidance of His prohibitions, you will be under Allah's protection, and their scheming will not harm you. And it has been read (it will not harm you) from 'darrah' which means to harm. And 'it will harm you' with the raa being pronounced with a dammah following the dammah of the daad, like saying 'extend, O this'. Al-Mufaddal narrated from Asim (it will not harm you) with the raa opened. This is a teaching from Allah and guidance to seek help against the enemy's scheming through patience and piety. The wise have said:

If you want to suppress one who envies you, increase your virtue within yourself. Indeed, Allah is All-Aware of what they do from patience, piety, and others, and He encompasses them, so He will act upon you according to what you are deserving of. And it has been read with the 'ya' meaning that He is aware of what they do in their enmity towards you, so He will punish them for it.