Tafsir Ibn Abbas: At-Taghaabun, Ayah 15
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Your possessions and your children are only a trial for you distracting you from the concerns of the Hereafter and God — with Him is a great reward so do not forfeit it by preoccupying yourselves with possessions and children.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Your wealth and your children) who are in Mecca (are only a temptation) they are a calamity for you if they prevent you from migrating and taking part in jihad, (whereas Allah! with Him is an immense reward) for he who migrates and takes part in jihad in the way of Allah and is, further, not distracted by his wealth and children from migrating and taking part in jihad.