وَيَا قَوْمِ لَا أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ مَالًا ۖ إِنْ أَجْرِيَ إِلَّا عَلَى اللَّهِ ۚ وَمَا أَنَا بِطَارِدِ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ۚ إِنَّهُم مُّلَاقُو رَبِّهِمْ وَلَٰكِنِّي أَرَاكُمْ قَوْمًا تَجْهَلُونَ (29)
(11:29) My people! I seek no recompense from you. *35 My recompense is only with Allah. Nor will I drive away those who believe. They are destined to meet their Lord. *36 But I find you to be an ignorant people.
*35). The Prophet Noah (peace be on him) told his people that he had sincerely counselled his people about what was conducive to their well-being. Noah bore all kinds of hardship and suffering, and all for the well-being of his people. Noah sought to achieve no personal benefit out of his striving to call
*36). The worth of the believers is best known only to their Lord which will become fully evident when they encounter Him on the Day of Judgement. If they indeed are true gems, they will not then become pieces of ordinary rock just because some people in this world had disparagingly thrown them aside. But if, on the contrary, they are indeed nothing but mere pieces of ordinary rock, their Lord has every right to cast them wherever He pleases. (See Towards Understanding the Qur'an, vol. II, al-An'am 6: 52, and al-Kahf 18:28.)