The Holy Quran 53:39 — Surah An-Najm

Arabic text

وَأَن لَّيْسَ لِلْإِنسَـٰنِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَىٰ

Translation

Man shall have (earn) Only that (rewards or punishment) for (those actions) which he strives (to carry out)...

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Everyone is answerable for his own deeds: that is, only what a person earns through his own effort is his. It cannot be that he makes off with someone else’s good deeds. As for someone, of his own free will, giving some of his rights to another and Allah accepting it, that is a different matter, the details of which can be learned from hadith and fiqh.

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