Tafsir for verse: 26:21
فَفَرَرۡتُ مِنكُمۡ لَمَّا خِفۡتُكُمۡ فَوَهَبَ لِي رَبِّي حُكۡمٗا وَجَعَلَنِي مِنَ ٱلۡمُرۡسَلِينَ ٢١ ﴿21
21Then I fled away from you when I feared you. Thereafter my Lord granted wisdom to me, and made me one of the messengers.
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Commentary

So I fled. This means that the cause of my action and my pursuit was that I fled from you, meaning from you due to your tyranny, and from your people due to their temptation of you against me. When I feared you upon myself that you would kill me because of that man whom I killed mistakenly, although he was a disbeliever whose blood was lawful to shed. So my Lord granted me, He who was good to me by raising me under the care of my mother Amina, safe from the injustice you caused out of fear from me, a judgment. This means knowledge that I act upon like the actions of wise rulers. And He made me one of the messengers. So strive now with your effort, for I do not fear you for killing or anything else.

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