This is the essence of the reward, and it is in this world. The day of this world is the day of recompense, and the day of the Hereafter is the day of recompense, except that in the Hereafter it is more severe and greater because it does not produce a reward for the one who was afflicted. It may produce a reward in this world for the one who was afflicted, but it may not result. This is the difference between the day of this world and the day of the Hereafter. The calamity is followed by an acceptable repentance for the one who suffered it, and there may be in this world the ruling on the Day of the Hereafter that repentance will not be accepted, which is His saying about the rising of the sun from the west: No soul will benefit from its faith if it did not believe before or earn good through its faith, so the work of the worker will not benefit even though he is in this world, so it is similar to the afterlife. Likewise, also, the afflicted person in this world will be expiated f