Transliteration:( Wa mai yaqnut minkunna lillaahi wa Rasoolihee wa ta'mal saalihan nu'tihaaa ajrahaa marratayni wa a'tadnaa lahaa rizqan kareema )
77. This means you should continue to obey Allah Almighty and His Beloved Rasool .and remain firm on it. Here too, the preposition 'from' is for narration purposes and not brevity, because all the pure wives of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم are totally obedient to Allah Almighty and His Prophet Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم .This tells us that the obedience of the Holy Prophet is in reality obedience of Allah Almighty صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم.
78. In that while those who receive the reward of fifty thousand in Madina for one good deed, you will receive the reward of one hundred thousand. This is because one part of the reward would be obedience and piety and the second portion would be for obtaining the pleasure of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه و آله وسلم which is available to you, but not to others.
From this we learn that in the matter of this command, the pure wives of the Holy Prophet are superior to his children because their reward for a good deed is double.
79.This means that besides this double reward, there is a special sustenance for them in Paradise, specified for them only. From this we learn that the pure wives are superior to the pious children, because they would enjoy the اcompany of the Holy Prophet in Paradise and would be entitled to special sustenance, about which no one has any knowledge.
The tafsir of Surah Ahzab verse 31 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Ahzab ayat 30 which provides the complete commentary from verse 30 through 31.
45. The reason for giving a double punishment for a sin and a double reward for a good work is that those whom Allah honors with a high rank in society generally become the leaders of men and the majority of the people follow them for good or for evil. Thus, their evil does not remain their own evil but becomes the cause of a people’s degeneration, and their goodness does not remain their own goodness but becomes the cause of the true success of many other people also. Therefore, when they commit evil they are punished for their own as well as for others degeneration, and when they do good they are not only rewarded for their own good works but also for this that they also guided others to do good.
This verse also gives the principle that the greater the degree of prohibition and trust in respect of somebody and something the greater and more serious will be the crime of violating that prohibition and trust and the greater will be the punishment for it. For example, drinking in the mosque is a much more serious crime than drinking privately in the house, and therefore, it will entail a severer punishment. Likewise, committing adultery with the prohibited relations is a far more serious crime than committing it with another woman, and therefore, will call for a severer punishment.
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