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Sura 43
Aya 44
44
وَإِنَّهُ لَذِكرٌ لَكَ وَلِقَومِكَ ۖ وَسَوفَ تُسأَلونَ

Muhammad Asad

and, verily, this [revelation] shall indeed become [a source of] eminence for thee and thy people:1 but in time you all will be called to account [for what you have done with it].2
  • For the above rendering of dhikr as "[a source of] eminence", see first half of note 13 on 21:10.
  • The meaning is that on the Day of Judgment all prophets will be asked, metaphorically, as to what response they received from their people (cf. 5:109), and those who professed to follow them will be called to account for the spiritual and social use they made - or did not make - of the revelation conveyed to them: and thus, the "eminence" promised to the followers of Muhammad will depend on their actual behaviour and not on their mere profession of faith.