Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

263 An honourable word with pardon
is better than a charity followed by affront.
Allah is all-sufficient, most forbearing.
264 O you who have faith!
Do not render your charities void
by reproaches and affronts,
like those who spend their wealth
to be seen by people
and have no faith in Allah and the Last Day.
Their parable ¹ is that of a rock covered with soil:
a downpour strikes it, leaving it bare.
They have no power
over anything of what they have earned,
and Allah does not guide the faithless lot.
265 The parable of those who spend their wealth
seeking Allah’s pleasure
and to confirm themselves,
is that of a garden on a hillside:
the downpour strikes it,
whereupon it brings forth its fruit twofold;
and if it is not a downpour that strikes it,
then a shower,
and Allah sees best what you do.
266 Would any of you like to have
a garden of palm trees and vines,
with streams running in it,
with all kinds of fruit for him therein,
and old age were to strike him
while he has weakly offspring;