Ash-Shu'ara 109: I am not asking for any remuneration for this. The One who will give my reward is the Lord of the worlds.

A. Metin Saruhan · 29 October 2017 · Ash-Shu'ara

Translation

I am not asking for any remuneration for this. The One who will give my reward is the Lord of the worlds.

Tafsir

O my people! I do not ask you for any remuneration for this mission, but I tell you the commands of Allah who created you and me and all these worlds. I do not ask you for anything for myself because of my prophetic mission. If I had asked you for anything for myself, then I would have been under your suspicion and you would have been right not to believe me.

My reward belongs to Allah, the Owner of the worlds. He said that only Allah, the Lord of the worlds, is the one who will provide for me.

What is said in the video

We said the hundred and ninth. In the hundred and ninth verse. Ve mâ es'elüküm aleyhi min ecr, in ecriye illâ alâ rabbi'l-âlemîn. What does it say? My reward belongs to Allah alone. I do not ask you for any payment. Yes.

I ask no payment at all from you for this. The only one who will give my reward is the Lord of the worlds, it says. Yes. Noah (peace be upon him): O my people, for this duty of mine I do not ask any payment from you. That is, when you obey me, if the thought "Might he want a payment from us?" comes to your mind at all, let no such thing come to your mind. I ask no payment at all from you. Only as a brother from among you, so that you obey Allah and escape the calamities that will come upon you, the disasters – because I am a messenger sent to you by Allah, I convey the truth to you, he says. That is the meaning anyway. Otherwise, I ask nothing of you for this.

My payment rests with Allah, he says. And when I explain these things, my payment, he says, belongs to Allah, not to you. I ask no payment from you for what I explain.

Why? Who gave me this knowledge? Allah gave it. Did I work and obtain it by my own strength? My Lord's wisdom. Yes, because I (?) my nafs and obeyed Allah Almighty in due time, my Lord gave me this knowledge in return. If He gave this knowledge, am I going to pour it into worldly capital, into trade? Allah forbid. I am obliged to give this knowledge to people. And I am striving for it anyway. You are witnesses, and my Lord is witness. Yes. Noah (peace be upon him): O my people, for this duty of mine I do not ask any payment from you. I only pass on the commands of Allah, who created you and me and all these worlds, to you.

All that these verses correspond to are the answers to our own lives anyway. That is their meaning anyway. Because of my duty as a prophet, I do not ask anything of you for myself either. If I had made a demand of you for myself, I would then fall under your suspicions, and you would be right not to believe me, he said. My reward belongs to Allah, the Owner of the worlds. And the only one who will give me my sustenance is the Owner of the worlds, their Lord, Allah, he said.