Tafsir for verse: 20:96
قَالَ بَصُرۡتُ بِمَا لَمۡ يَبۡصُرُواْ بِهِۦ فَقَبَضۡتُ قَبۡضَةٗ مِّنۡ أَثَرِ ٱلرَّسُولِ فَنَبَذۡتُهَا وَكَذَٰلِكَ سَوَّلَتۡ لِي نَفۡسِي ٩٦ ﴿96
96He said, “I perceived something they did not perceive. So I picked up a handful from under the footstep of the messenger. Then, I cast it. And thus my inner self tempted me.”
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Commentary

The Samaritan said in response: "I saw with insight what they did not see regarding the matter of the Messenger who permitted us to cross the sea. So I took a handful, meaning that was a reason for me to take a handful, a time of taking, which I called the taken, naming it after the action in the source, from the trace of that Messenger, meaning the known one. Then I cast it into the jewelry thrown into the fire, or into the calf. And likewise, as my soul prompted me to take its trace, it beautified and adorned for me the casting of it into the jewelry, so I cast it. Thus, there was what there was from it, and no one called me to that nor did anyone carry me to it except for the prompting."

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