ٱلْبَقَرَة : ٢٦٤

  • يَٰٓأَيُّهَا O you
  • ٱلَّذِينَ who
  • ءَامَنُواْ believe[d]!
  • لَا (Do) not
  • تُبۡطِلُواْ render in vain
  • صَدَقَٰتِكُم your charities
  • بِٱلۡمَنِّ with reminders (of it)
  • وَٱلۡأَذَىٰ or [the] hurt
  • كَٱلَّذِي like the one who
  • يُنفِقُ spends
  • مَالَهُۥ his wealth
  • رِئَآءَ (to) be seen
  • ٱلنَّاسِ (by) the people
  • وَلَا and (does) not
  • يُؤۡمِنُ believe
  • بِٱللَّهِ in Allah
  • وَٱلۡيَوۡمِ and the Day
  • ٱلۡأٓخِرِۖ [the] Last
  • فَمَثَلُهُۥ Then his example
  • كَمَثَلِ (is) like
  • صَفۡوَانٍ (that of a) smooth rock
  • عَلَيۡهِ upon it
  • تُرَابٞ (is) dust
  • فَأَصَابَهُۥ then fell on it
  • وَابِلٞ heavy rain
  • فَتَرَكَهُۥ then left it
  • صَلۡدٗاۖ bare
  • لَّا Not
  • يَقۡدِرُونَ they have control
  • عَلَىٰ on
  • شَيۡءٖ anything
  • مِّمَّا of what
  • كَسَبُواْۗ they (have) earned
  • وَٱللَّهُ And Allah
  • لَا (does) not
  • يَهۡدِي guide
  • ٱلۡقَوۡمَ the people
  • ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ [the] disbelieving
O you who have believed, do not invalidate your charities with reminders [of it] or injury as does one who spends his wealth [only] to be seen by the people and does not believe in Allāh and the Last Day. His example is like that of a [large] smooth stone upon which is dust and is hit by a downpour that leaves it bare. They are unable [to keep] anything of what they have earned. And Allāh does not guide the disbelieving people.
O you who believe, annul not, the rewards of, your voluntary almsgivings with reproach and injury, as, in the manner of the annulment of the expenditure of, one who expends of his substance to show off to men and believes not in God and the Last Day: this is the hypocrite. The likeness of him is as the likeness of a smooth rock on which is soil, and a torrent, of intense rain, smites it, and leaves it barren, and smooth with nothing on it. They have no power (laa yaqdiroona is a resumption of the statement about the likeness of the one that expends for show; the person becomes plural on account of the [potential plural] implication of alladhee, 'the one who') over anything that they have earned, that they did, in other words, they find no reward for it in the Hereafter, just as one finds nothing of the dust that was on the surface of the smooth rock, after the rain has washed it away. God guides not the disbelieving folk.