The Story
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[28:54]
These it is that shall receive a twofold reward for having been patient in adversity, and having repelled evil with good, and having spent on others out of what We provided for them as sustenance,

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* v.54 : See note 44 on the identical phrase in 13:22. In the present context, the reference to “patience in adversity” and “repelling evil with good” evidently relates to the loss of erstwhile communal links, social ostracism, and all manner of physical or moral persecution which is so often the lot of persons who accept religious tenets different from those of their own community.