Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Az-Zumar, Ayah 35
لِيُكَفِّرَ ٱللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ أَسْوَأَ ٱلَّذِى عَمِلُوا۟ وَيَجْزِيَهُمْ أَجْرَهُم بِأَحْسَنِ ٱلَّذِى كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ
That Allah may remove from them the worst of what they did and reward them their due for the best of what they used to do.
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so that God may absolve them of the worst of what they did and pay them their reward by the best of what they used to do aswa’a and ahsana mean simply al-sayyi’ ‘bad’ and al-hasan ‘good’.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(That Allah will remit from them the worst of what they did) the vilest of their works, (and will pay them for reward the best they used to do) of good.