So it is for you the reward of the condition, which is his saying: 'Whatever I asked you for reward is for you.' This is like His saying, 'What Allah opens for the people of mercy.' And it has two meanings. The first is the negation of asking for a reward altogether, as when a man says to his companion: 'If you give me something, take it,' while he knows that he has not given him anything, but he means by it to clarify, by linking the taking to what was not. The second is that he means by reward what he intended in His saying: 'Say, I do not ask you for it any reward except for whoever wishes to take a way to his Lord.' And in His saying: 'Say, I do not ask you for any reward except for the affection in kinship.' Because taking the way to Allah is their share and what benefits them, and likewise the affection in kinship, because kinship has united him and them. Over all things is a witness, a guardian, and a preserver, who knows that I do not seek a reward for your advice and your calling to Him except from Him, nor do I hope for anything from you.