who believe, not for anyone else.
“Purely theirs on the Day of Resurrection” means that on that day such blessings will reach them unsullied by any taint. The implicit meaning of the noble verse, “Say: they are, during this worldly life, for those who believe, and purely theirs on the Day of Resurrection” (7:32), is that for those who do not believe these favors are forbidden; they will not enjoy them in a pure form on the Day of Resurrection, and they will be punished for them.
Allah also says in Sūrah al-Māʾidah—one of the last revelations: “There is no sin upon those who believe and do righteous deeds for what they may have consumed” (5:93). The unspoken corollary is that sin does in fact befall the unbelievers for what they have consumed.
Thus the disbeliever, from the very moment he rises in the morning—may Allah protect us—is selling his soul for what will destroy it, whereas the believer sells his soul for what will emancipate it and save it from the Fire. We ask Allah to make us all among the latter.
At the end of this ḥadith the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, explained that people divide into two categories:
• a group for whom the Quran will be a proof, as he said: “and the Quran is a proof for you,”
• and a group who free their own souls through their righteous deeds,
• and a group who doom them through their evil deeds. Allah is the One who grants success.
- ʿAbū Saʿīd Saʿd ibn Mālik ibn Sinān al-Khudrī (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that some men from the Anṣār asked the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he gave them; then they asked again and he gave them, until everything he possessed was spent. When nothing at all remained in his hands, he said to them, “If I had…"