Tafsir for verses: 38:86, 38:87, 38:88
قُلۡ مَآ أَسۡـَٔلُكُمۡ عَلَيۡهِ مِنۡ أَجۡرٖ وَمَآ أَنَا۠ مِنَ ٱلۡمُتَكَلِّفِينَ ٨٦ ﴿86 إِنۡ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكۡرٞ لِّلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ٨٧ ﴿87 وَلَتَعۡلَمُنَّ نَبَأَهُۥ بَعۡدَ حِينِۭ ٨٨ ﴿88
86Say (O Prophet to the unbelievers,) “I do not demand from you any fee for it, nor am I from among those who make up things artificially. 87It is nothing but an advice for all the worlds. 88And you will come to know its reality after a while.”
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Commentary

Upon him is a reward, the pronoun refers to the Qur'an or to the revelation. And I am not among those who are pretentious, from those who feign and adorn themselves with what they are not of its people. And you have never known me to be pretentious or claiming what is not with me, to the extent that I would claim prophethood and fabricate the Qur'an. It is nothing but a reminder from Allah for the worlds, for both the jinn and mankind. It was revealed to me, so I convey it. And about the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him: "The pretentious one has three signs: he disputes with those above him, he engages in what he cannot attain, and he speaks of what he does not know." [Reported by Al-Thalabi through the chain of Muhammad ibn Aun, who narrated to us Muhammad ibn Al-Musalla, who narrated to us Haywah ibn Shurayh from Arta'ah ibn Al-Mundhir from Dumrah ibn Habib from Salamah ibn Nufail, raised to him. It was also narrated by Al-Bayhaqi in Al-Shu'ab in the thirty-third from the narration of Baqiyyah from Arta'ah's statement, and it was narrated by Abu Nu'aym from Wahb ibn Munabbih's statement.] And you will certainly know its news, meaning what will come to you at death, or on the Day of Resurrection, or upon the emergence of Islam and its spread, of the truth of its news, and that it is the truth and the reality. And therein is a threat. About the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him: "Whoever recites Surah Sad will have for him the weight of every mountain that Allah made submissive to Dawud ten good deeds, and He protects him from persisting in a minor or major sin." [Reported by Al-Thalabi, Ibn Mardawayh, and Al-Wahidi from the hadith of Abu, may Allah be pleased with him.]

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