﴿ مَّن كَانَ يُرِيدُ ثَوَابَ ٱلدُّنْيَا فَعِندَ ٱللَّهِ ثَوَابُ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَٱلْءَاخِرَةِ ۚ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ سَمِيعًۢا بَصِيرًۭا ﴾

“If one desires the rewards of this world, [let him remember that] with God are the rewards of [both] this world and the life to come: and God is indeed all-hearing, all-seeing.”

Whoever desires the reward of this world then God has the reward of this world and of the hereafter; God is ever Hearing Seeing. When they attached their hearts to what is transitory in this world He reminded them of what happens in the hereafter saying �then God has the reward of this world and of the hereafter.� This was to inform them that the blessing of the hereafter is far above what they aspire to in this paltry place. When the object of their search was elevated to the hereafter He cut them off from any external or created thing [saying] �And God is better and more enduring� [20:73].