Surah Al An'am Tafseer

The Messenger Neither has the Key to Allah's Treasures, Nor Knows the Unseen

Allah said to His Messenger,

قُل لاَّ أَقُولُ لَكُمْ عِندِي خَزَايِنُ اللّهِ

Say:"I don't tell you that with me are the treasures of Allah."

meaning, I do not own Allah's treasures or have any power over them,

وَلا أَعْلَمُ الْغَيْبَ

nor (that) I know the Unseen,

and I do not say that I know the Unseen, because its knowledge is with Allah and I only know what He conveys of it to me.

وَلا أَقُولُ لَكُمْ إِنِّي مَلَكٌ

nor I tell you that I am an angel.

meaning, I do not claim that I am an angel. I am only a human to whom Allah sends revelation, and He honored me with this duty and favored me with it.

إِنْ أَتَّبِعُ إِلاَّ مَا يُوحَى إِلَيَّ

I but follow what is revealed to me.

and I never disobey the revelation in the least.

قُلْ هَلْ يَسْتَوِي الَاعْمَى وَالْبَصِيرُ

Say:"Are the blind and the one who sees equal!"

meaning, `Is the one who is guided, following the truth, equal to the one misled!'

أَفَلَ تَتَفَكَّرُونَ

Will you not then consider!

In another Ayah, Allah said;

أَفَمَن يَعْلَمُ أَنَّمَأ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِن رَبِّكَ الْحَقُّ كَمَنْ هُوَ أَعْمَى إِنَّمَا يَتَذَكَّرُ أُوْلُواْ الَالْبَـبِ

Shall he then who knows that what has been revealed to you from your Lord is the truth, be like him who is blind But it is only the men of understanding that pay heed. (13:19)

Allah's statement