The Holy Quran 10:72 — Surah Yunus

Arabic text

فَإِن تَوَلَّيْتُمْ فَمَا سَأَلْتُكُم مِّنْ أَجْرٍ ۖ إِنْ أَجْرِىَ إِلَّا عَلَى ٱللَّهِ ۖ وَأُمِرْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ

Translation

"If you turn away (refuse to accept my message), then (remember that) I have never asked any reward from you (so you cannot claim that you have rejected my message because you were unable to give me what I had asked for). My reward shall be from Allaah and I have been commanded to be from those who submit (only to Him)."

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

that is, in confronting you I neither fear danger to my life or bodily suffering, nor am I worried about any financial loss, for I have never asked you for any recompense for the service of conveying the message and calling [to Allah], so that I should fear that because of your displeasure my salary will be stopped, or that at the very least you would have…

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