At-Tawbah 9:120

<h2>Rewards of Jihad</h2><p>Allah, the Exalted and Most Honored, criticizes the people of Al-Madinah and the bedouins around it, who did not participate in the battle of Tabuk with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. They sought to preserve themselves rather than comfort the Messenger ﷺ during the hardship that he suffered in that battle. They incurred a loss in their share of the reward, since,</p><p>لاَ يُصِيبُهُمْ ظَمَأٌ</p><p>(they suffer neither Zama'), thirst,</p><p>وَلاَ نَصَبٌ</p><p>(nor Nasab), fatigue,</p><p>وَلاَ مَخْمَصَةٌ</p><p>(nor Makhmasah), hunger,</p><p>وَلاَ يَطَأُونَ مَوْطِئًا يَغِيظُ الْكُفَّارَ</p><p>(nor they take any step to raise the anger of disbelievers), by strategies of war that would terrify their enemy,</p><p>وَلاَ يَنَالُونَ</p><p>(nor inflict), a defeat on the enemy,</p><p>إِلاَّ كُتِبَ لَهُمْ</p><p>(but is written to their credit) as compensation for these steps that are not under their control, but a consequence of performing good deeds that earn them tremendous rewards,</p><p>إِنَّ اللَّهَ لاَ يُضِيعُ أَجْرَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ</p><p>(Surely, Allah wastes not the reward of the doers of good.) Allah said in a similar Ayah,</p><p>إِنَّا لاَ نُضِيعُ أَجْرَ مَنْ أَحْسَنَ عَمَلاً</p><p>(Certainly We shall not make the reward of anyone who does his (righteous) deeds in the most perfect manner to be lost)</p>

It is not for the townsfolk of Al-Madinah and for those around them of the wandering Arabs so stay behind the messenger of Allah and prefer their lives to his life. That is because neither thirst nor toil nor hunger afflicteth them in the way of Allah, nor step they any step that angereth the disbelievers, nor gain they from the enemy a gain, but a good deed is recorded for them therefor. Lo! Allah loseth not the wages of the good.

It was not fitting for the people of Medina and the Bedouin Arabs of the neighbourhood, to refuse to follow Allah's Messenger, nor to prefer their own lives to his: because nothing could they suffer or do, but was reckoned to their credit as a deed of righteousness,- whether they suffered thirst, or fatigue, or hunger, in the cause of Allah, or trod paths to raise the ire of the Unbelievers, or received any injury whatever from an enemy: for Allah suffereth not the reward to be lost of those who do good;-

It was not becoming of the people of Al-Madinah and the bedouins of the neighbourhood to remain behind Allah's Messenger (Muhammad SAW when fighting in Allah's Cause) and (it was not becoming of them) to prefer their own lives to his life. That is because they suffer neither thirst nor fatigue, nor hunger in the Cause of Allah, nor they take any step to raise the anger of disbelievers nor inflict any injury upon an enemy but is written to their credit as a deed of righteousness. Surely, Allah wastes not the reward of the Muhsinun

It is not for the inhabitants of Medina and the Desert-Arabs around them to stay behind the Messenger of God, nor to prefer themselves to him. That is because they never suffer any thirst, nor fatigue, nor hunger in the cause of God, nor do they take one step that enrages the disbelievers, nor do they gain anything from an enemy, but it is recorded to their credit as a righteous deed. God does not waste the reward of the righteous.