Al-Aaraf 7:188 قل لا املك لنفسي نفعا ولا ضرا الا ما شاء الله ولو كنت اعلم الغيب لاستكثرت من الخير وما مسني السوء ان انا الا نذير وبشير لقوم يومنون ١٨٨
قُل
لَّآ
أَمۡلِكُ
لِنَفۡسِي
نَفۡعٗا
وَلَا
ضَرًّا
إِلَّا
مَا
شَآءَ
ٱللَّهُۚ
وَلَوۡ
كُنتُ
أَعۡلَمُ
ٱلۡغَيۡبَ
لَٱسۡتَكۡثَرۡتُ
مِنَ
ٱلۡخَيۡرِ
وَمَا
مَسَّنِيَ
ٱلسُّوٓءُۚ
إِنۡ
أَنَا۠
إِلَّا
نَذِيرٞ
وَبَشِيرٞ
لِّقَوۡمٖ
يُؤۡمِنُونَ
١٨٨
Say, “I have no power to benefit or protect myself, except by the Will of Allah. If I had known the unknown, I would have benefited myself enormously, and no harm would have ever touched me. I am only a warner and deliverer of good news for those who believe.”
Soma Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
The Messenger does not know the Unseen, and He cannot bring Benefit or Harm even to Himself
Allah commanded His Prophet to entrust all matters to Him and to inform, about himself, that he does not know the unseen future, but he knows of it only what Allah informs him. Allah said in another Ayah,
عَلِ
…The Messenger does not know the Unseen, and He cannot bring Benefit or Harm even to Himself
Allah commanded His Prophet to entrust all matters to Him a
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