Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Muminoon, Ayah 72
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(Or dost thou ask of them) or do you ask, O Muhammad, the people of Mecca (any tribute) some payment, and this is why they are not responding? (But! the bounty of your Lord) in Paradise (is better) is better than what they have in the life of this world, (for He is best of all who make provision) in this world and in the next.
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Al-Jalalayn Commentary
Or do you ask them for any recompense? any remuneration in return for the faith that you have brought them? Yet the recompense of your Lord is His remuneration His reward and His provision are better one reading has kharjan ‘recompense’ in both instances sc. kharjan fa-kharju; another has kharājan in both sc. kharājan fa-kharāju and He is the best of providers the best of givers and remunerators.