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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

Al-Qasas 28:44

Word by word

وَمَا كُنتَ بِجَانِبِ ٱلْغَرْبِىِّ إِذْ قَضَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَى ٱلْأَمْرَ وَمَا كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلشَّـٰهِدِينَ

And you, [O Muḥammad], were not on the western side [of the mount] when We revealed to Moses the command, and you were not among the witnesses [to that].

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

وما كنت -أيها الرسول- بجانب الجبل الغربي من موسى إذ كلَّفناه أَمْرنا ونَهْينا، وما كنت من الشاهدين لذلك، حتى يقال: إنه وصل إليك من هذا الطريق.

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