Tafsir for verse: 7:144
قَالَ يَٰمُوسَىٰٓ إِنِّي ٱصۡطَفَيۡتُكَ عَلَى ٱلنَّاسِ بِرِسَٰلَٰتِي وَبِكَلَٰمِي فَخُذۡ مَآ ءَاتَيۡتُكَ وَكُن مِّنَ ٱلشَّٰكِرِينَ ١٤٤ ﴿144
144He said, “Mūsā, I have chosen you above all men for my messages and for My speaking (to you). So, take what I have given to you, and be among the grateful.”
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Commentary

I have chosen you over the people. I have selected you over the people of your time and preferred you over them with My messages, which are the scrolls of the Torah, and with My words, and by My speaking to you. So take what I have given you, what I have granted you of the honor of prophethood and wisdom, and be among the grateful for the blessing in that, for it is one of the greatest blessings. It is said that Moses fell down unconscious on the Day of Arafah, and he was given the Torah on the Day of Nahr. If you say: How can it be said, 'I have chosen you over the people,' while Aaron was also chosen and a prophet like him? I say: Yes, but he was a follower of him, a supporter, and a minister. And the speaker is Moses, peace be upon him, and he is the original bearer of the message.

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