O you who have believed, do not invalidate your charities with reminders (2:264)

Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim

O you whose hearts truly believe: Do not cancel the divine reward you merit for your benevolence by the reminders of your generosity or inducing mental anguish. You are then like he who spends his wealth ostentatiously under the guise of benevolence only to attract attention and win people’s admiration while truthfully, he believes neither in Allah nor in the Last Day. His similitude is that of a rock covered with dust and fertile soil which has been exposed to torrential rain stripping it of its soil leaving it completely bare. Such persons have lost; unable to reclaim anything they had falsely earned. And Allah does not guide those who deny Him to His path of righteousness

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(2:264) O Believers, do not spoil your charity by taunts and injury to the recipients like the one who practises charity to be seen by men, while he neither believes in Allah nor in the Last Day. *303 His charity may be likened to the rainfall on a rock which had only a thin layer of soil upon it. When heavy rain fell on it, the whole of the soil washed away and the rock was left bare *304 Such people do not gain the reward they imagine they have earned by their seeming charity; Allah does not show the Right Way to the ungrateful . *305

O you who have believed, do not invalidate your charities with reminders meaning

*303). The desire to display one's good deeds itself proves that the person concerned does not truly believe in God and the Hereafter. One who does good merely in order to impress people with his righteousness clearly regards those persons as his god. Such a person neither expects reward from God nor is he concerned that his good deeds will some day be reckoned to his credit.
*304). In this parable, 'heavy rain' signifies charity, and 'rock' the wicked intent and motive which lie behind external acts of charity. The expression, 'with a thin coating of earth upon it' signifies the external aspect of charity which conceals the wicked intent and motive of a man. These explanations make the significance and purport of the parable clear. The natural effect of rainfall should be the growth of plants and harvest. But if the earth, which is the repository of fertility, is insignificant in quantity, for example only a coating of it on some rock, the result will be that instead of yielding any beneficial result the rainfall may even prove harmful. Similarly, charity has the capacity to generate goodness and benevolence in human beings. Man's potential for goodness, however, is conditional on sincerity. Devoid of that charity leads to sheer loss and waste.
*305). Here the term kafir is used in the sense of the ungrateful person who refuses to acknowledge benevolence. People who either make use of the bounties of God in order to seek the gratitude of God's creatures rather than God's good pleasure, or who spend on others and then hurt them by stressing their acts of benevolence and kindness, are ungrateful to God for His bounties and favours. Since such people do not seek to please God, God does not care to direct them to the way that leads to His good pleasure.
 

O you who have believed, do not invalidate your charities with reminders meaning in Urdu

اے ایمان لانے والو! اپنے صدقات کو احسان جتا کر اور دکھ دے کر اُس شخص کی طرح خاک میں نہ ملا دو، جو اپنا مال محض لوگوں کے دکھانے کو خرچ کرتا ہے اور نہ اللہ پر ایما ن رکھتا ہے، نہ آخرت پر اُس کے خرچ کی مثال ایسی ہے، جیسے ایک چٹان تھی، جس پر مٹی کی تہہ جمی ہوئی تھی اس پر جب زور کا مینہ برسا، تو ساری مٹی بہہ گئی اور صاف چٹان کی چٹان رہ گئی ایسے لوگ اپنے نزدیک خیرات کر کے جو نیکی کماتے ہیں، اس سے کچھ بھی اُن کے ہاتھ نہیں آتا، اور کافروں کو سیدھی راہ دکھانا اللہ کا دستور نہیں ہے