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Sura 44
Aya 18
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أَن أَدّوا إِلَيَّ عِبادَ اللَّهِ ۖ إِنّي لَكُم رَسولٌ أَمينٌ

Yusuf Ali

Saying: “Restore to me1 the Servants of God. I am to you a messenger worthy of all trust;2
  • The argument of Moses and his “authority manifest” will be found at 7:104- 108, 120-126, 130-137. Notice how fully he assumes the authority of his office here. He claims all “servants of God”, i.e., true worshippers, as under his protection, for his mission was both to the Egyptians and the Israelites; he asks that they should be restored to him; and he boldly denounces the Pharaoh’s arrogance “as against God”.
  • “Worthy of all trust”: Amin, a title that applied to prophets in S. 26, e.g., see 26:107. As the Prophet had historically earned that tide among his own people, the reminiscences of the story of Moses apply to him in his relations with the arrogant Quraish.