Tafheem ul Quran

Surah 11 Hud, Ayat 29-29

وَيٰقَوۡمِ لَاۤ اَسۡـئَلُكُمۡ عَلَيۡهِ مَالًا ؕاِنۡ اَجۡرِىَ اِلَّا عَلَى اللّٰهِ​ وَمَاۤ اَنَا بِطَارِدِ الَّذِيۡنَ اٰمَنُوۡا​ ؕ اِنَّهُمۡ مُّلٰقُوۡا رَبِّهِمۡ وَلٰـكِنِّىۡۤ اَرٰٮكُمۡ قَوۡمًا تَجۡهَلُوۡنَ‏ ﴿11:29﴾

(11:29) My people! I seek no recompense from you.35 My recompense is only with Allah. Nor will I drive away those who believe. They are destined to meet their Lord.36 But I find you to be an ignorant people.


Notes

35. This was to bring home to them the fact that he had no selfish motive in the performance of his mission, as if to say: I am conveying the admonition to you without any demand or hope or expectation of worldly gains. Nay, I am bearing all the sufferings in the hope that you may at last realize that I have no axe to grind. And you cannot point out anything to show that I have any personal or selfish interest before me in the mission of the Message. See. (E.N. 70 of Surah Al-Mominoon), (E.N. 17 of Surah Saba vand (E.N. 41 of Surah Ash-Shura).

36. That is, their true worth will be known only when they shall meet their Lord. Therefore it is not proper for you to treat them with contempt here in this world. Maybe they are precious stones, their Lord alone knows, and you are treating them as mere worthless stones. See (Surah Al- Anaam, Ayat, 52), (Surah Al-Kahaf, Ayat 28).