Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Ar-Room, Ayah 39
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(That which ye give in usury in order that it may increase on (other) people's property) to increase your wealth at the expense of people's wealth (hath no increase with Allah) for He will not multiply it since it is not for His Countenance; (but that which ye give in charity) to the needy, (seeking) with it (Allah's Countenance, hath increase manifold) in the Hereafter and their wealth will be increased in the life of this world by the grace of Allah and His preservation of it.
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Al-Jalalayn Commentary
And what you give in usury — such as when something is given as a gift or a present for the purpose of demanding more in return; it the practice of usury ribā is referred to by the same noun denoting that illicit ‘extra’ ziyāda requested in the financial transaction — that it may increase the wealth of the people giving it does not increase with God — there is no reward in it for those who give it. But what you give as alms zakāt as voluntary alms sadaqa seeking thereby God’s Countenance such of you who do so — they are the receivers of manifold increase in their reward for what they sought there is here a shift of address away from the second person.