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Al-Baqarah 2:271

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إِن تُبْدُوا۟ ٱلصَّدَقَـٰتِ فَنِعِمَّا هِىَ ۖ وَإِن تُخْفُوهَا وَتُؤْتُوهَا ٱلْفُقَرَآءَ فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ ۚ وَيُكَفِّرُ عَنكُم مِّن سَيِّـَٔاتِكُمْ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرٌ

If you disclose your charitable expenditures, they are good; but if you conceal them and give them to the poor, it is better for you, and He will remove from you some of your misdeeds [thereby]. And Allāh, of what you do, is [fully] Aware.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

إن تظهروا ما تتصدقون به لله فنِعْمَ ما تصدقتم به، وإن تسرُّوا بها، وتعطوها الفقراء فهذا أفضل لكم; لأنه أبعد عن الرياء، وفي الصدقة -مع الإخلاص- محو لذنوبكم. والله الذي يعلم دقائق الأمور، لا يخفى عليه شيء من أحوالكم، وسيجازي كلا بعمله.

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