Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Saba, Ayah 37
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Nor is it your wealth or your children that will bring you near to Us in closeness except for but it is those who believe and act righteously those they shall have a twofold reward for what they did in other words they shall have it as the reward of their action — as a good deed for example is rewarded tenfold or more — and they shall be in the lofty abodes of Paradise secure from death and otherwise a variant reading for al-ghurufāt is al-ghurfa the generic noun implying a plural.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And it is not your wealth) the abundance of your wealth, O people of Mecca, (nor your children) nor the abundance of your children (that will bring you near unto Us) that will make your rank closer to Allah, (but he who believeth) in Allah, but it is the faith of he who believes in Allah (and doeth good) between him and his Lord that bring one close to Allah. (As for such, theirs will be twofold reward for what they did) as believers, (and they will dwell secure in lofty halls) secure from death and evanescence.