Transliteration:( Am lahum mulkus samaawaati wal ardi wa maa bainahumaa falyartaqoo fil asbaab )
17. Its purpose is to allow that sometimes the bestowal of worldly bounties assumes unnatural means. Sometimes totally ignorant people are wealthy and the educated are destitute. Then how would Prophethood be dependent on any means?
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The tafsir of Surah Sad verse 10 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Sad ayat 4 which provides the complete commentary from verse 4 through 11.
11. This is an answer to this saying of the disbelievers: Was he the only (fit) person among us to whom Allah’s admonition should have been sent down? Allah says: It is for Us to decide whom We should choose and appoint as a Prophet and whom We should not. These people do not possess any power and authority to exercise choice in this regard. If they wish to attain such an authority, they should try to reach the divine Throne in order to obtain control over the office of sovereignty of the Universe, so that revelation should come down on him whom they regard as deserving their mercy and not on him whom We regard as fit for it. This theme has occurred at several places in the Quran, because the unbelieving Quraish again and again said: How did Muhammad (peace be upon him) become a Prophet? Did Allah find no better man among the principal leaders of the Quraish worthy of this office? See (Surah Bani-Israil, Ayat 100); (Surah Az-Zukhruf, Ayat 31-32).
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