so that people will sweat, each one according to the measure of his deeds.

3 – The report highlights the merit of giving charity and shows that it is a means to bliss in the Hereafter.

4 – It also underscores the excellence of giving secretly and the importance of striving to conceal one’s alms, so that the giver may be counted among the seven fortunate ones who will be shaded by Allah on the Day of Resurrection, a day when no shade will protect people from the blazing tongues of the sun except His shade. Allah the Exalted says, “If you make your charity public, it is good; but if you conceal it and give it to the poor, that is better for you” (Q 2:271).
That is, hiding one’s charity is superior to disclosing it—unless a clear benefit lies in making it known, such as setting a good example for others, provided one is confident that ostentation will not taint the act.

5 – The wisdom behind secrecy is that it keeps the deed free from showing-off, which is one of the causes that nullify works and return them to the doer. It may also spare the poor person the feelings of humiliation and brokenness that can accompany receiving aid.

6 – His words “and a man who gives charity” do not exclude women; the ruling applies to them equally.

7 – Al-Sharḥ notes: “Be aware that the number mentioned carries no exclusivity.” Other qualities are reported that likewise earn a person shade. Ibn Ḥajar gathered twenty-eight such qualities in Fatḥ al-Bārī, and al-Suyūṭī raised the count to seventy.

Benefit
Acts of worship fall into two categories:

1. Refraining from something beloved, such as the prayer, fasting, and giving up desires.
2. Offering up something beloved, such as the obligatory alms, voluntary charities, and the pilgrimage.
   The hadith of the seven whom Allah will shade on the Day when no shade exists but His conforms to this division: each quality is either an abstention from what one loves—like the person who remains in the mosque and gives up