Surah Al-Baqarah, Ayah 271
Quran 2:271 · The Cow · Madani · Para 3 · Page 46
اِنْ تُبْدُوا الصَّدَقٰتِ فَنِعِمَّا هِیَ ۚ وَاِنْ تُخْفُوْهَا وَتُؤْتُوْهَا الْفُقَرَآءَ فَهُوَ خَیْرٌ لَّكُمْ ؕ وَیُكَفِّرُ عَنْكُمْ مِّنْ سَیِّاٰتِكُمْ ؕ وَاللّٰهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُوْنَ خَبِیْرٌ ۟
Transliteration
In tubdoo assadaqatifaniAAimma hiya wa-in tukhfooha watu/toohaalfuqaraa fahuwa khayrun lakum wayukaffiru AAankum minsayyi-atikum wallahu bimataAAmaloona khabeer
Saheeh International
If you disclose your charitable expenditures, they are good; but if you conceal them and give them to the poor, it is better for you, and He will remove from you some of your misdeeds [thereby]. And Allāh, of what you do, is [fully] Aware.
Al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir
If you openly declare what you spend in charity, it is a good act. But if you keep it secret and give it to the poor in private, this is better as it indicates sincerity. Charity that is given sincerely becomes the means of sins being covered up and forgiven. Allah knows what you do and nothing from your circumstances is hidden from Him.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (abridged)
Explains 2:270–2:271 together — read it on 2:270