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That is the good tidings (read yubshiru or yubashshiru, from bishāra, 'good news') which Allahu ta’ālā gives to His servants who believe and perform righteous deeds. Say: 'I do not ask of you any reward for it, for delivering the Message, except the affection for [my] kinsfolk (illā, 'except': this represents a discontinuous exception, in other words, 'but I do ask of you that you show affection for my kinship [with you], which at the same time is your kinship'; for he [the Prophet] had kinship ties with all the subdivisions of the [tribe of] Quraysh). And whoever acquires a good deed, an act of obedience, We shall enhance for him its goodness, by multiplying [the reward for] it. Surely Allahu ta’ālā is Forgiving, of sins, Appreciative, [even] of little [good], and so He multiplies it [manifold].