It is not your riches nor your children that make you near-stationed to Us, except for him who has faith and acts righteously;1 it is they who will receive double the recompense for their deeds. They shall live in lofty mansions in perfect peace.2
Footnotes
[1]
A grammatical shift from 3rd person to 2nd person..
[2]
The Arabic word used is Qur’an which literally means ‘recital’ or ‘recitation’.
[3]
This can have two meanings and both are correct:
[4]
(1) That which brings the people nearer to Allah is not wealth and children but faith and righteous deeds; and,