قل ما أسألكم عليه من أجر وما أنا من المتكلفين (38:86) بالانجليزي

(38:86) (O Prophet), tell them: 'I do not ask you for any recompense for the performance of this task; *71 nor am I given to affectation. *72

Tafseer Abu-al-A'la Maududi

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*71) That is, "I am a selfless person: I have no vested interest in preaching this message,"
*72) That is, "I am not one of those who arise with false claims for the sake of vanity and pose to be what actually they are not. " The Holy Prophet has not been made to say this merely for the information of the disbelievers of Makkah but this is testified by his whole life which he lived among the same people for forty years before his advent as a Prophet. Every child of Makkah was a witness that Muhammad (upon whom be Allah's peace) was not an impostor. Never had anybody from among the people of Makkah ever heard anything from him, which might have caused somebody the doubt that he aspired to be a great man and was planning and scheming for that end.