The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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And know that the reasons for giving differ. Some of them give for compensation and it is called buying and selling. This is a sign of generosity. The buyer has been blessed by your being a seller who has a great purpose in acquiring it, and he has given you what he does not need. Each of them has done something generous to its owner by delivering to him what he had. A purpose in achieving it, if he has the right to prevent that, then by this measure it is attached to the chapter of generosity on the part of the giver, it is an active noun, not on the part of the giver, an active participle. A person may give from this door out of fear for his honor or the occurrence of sensory pain that befalls him. It is as if he buys good praise, well-being, and security by that giving, so it is like the first. The difference between them is that what he bought in the first place is something for which he can have a purpose, but this cannot have a purpose at all for pain and the removal of well


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