Tafsir for verse: 28:46
وَمَا كُنتَ بِجَانِبِ ٱلطُّورِ إِذۡ نَادَيۡنَا وَلَٰكِن رَّحۡمَةٗ مِّن رَّبِّكَ لِتُنذِرَ قَوۡمٗا مَّآ أَتَىٰهُم مِّن نَّذِيرٖ مِّن قَبۡلِكَ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ ٤٦ ﴿46﴾
46And you were not at the side of (the mount) Tūr when We called (Mūsā), but it (your prophet-hood through which you knew all this) is a mercy from your Lord, so that you warn a people to whom no warner has come before you, that they may receive the advice.
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Commentary
When We called, He intends to call Moses, blessings and peace be upon him, on the night of speaking to him. However, We made you a mercy. It is read: mercy, in the nominative case, meaning it is a mercy that He brought them from a warner during the period between you and Jesus, which is five hundred and fifty years. Similar to His saying: 'So that you may warn a people whose forefathers were not warned.'
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