قُلْ إِن ضَلَلْتُ فَإِنَّمَا أَضِلُّ عَلَى نَفْسِي وَإِنِ اهْتَدَيْتُ فَبِمَا يُوحِي إِلَيَّ رَبِّي إِنَّهُ سَمِيعٌ قَرِيبٌ
Say, ‘If I go astray, my going astray is only to my own harm, and if I am rightly guided that is because of what my Lord has revealed to me. Indeed He is all-hearing and nearmost.’
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 34:50
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 34:50] Allah knows the truth because He is nearer to man than his own self, and He hears everything uttered, whether loudly, in whisper or in mind. Allah is the knower of everything. Aqa Mahdi Puya says: This is in reply to verse 43. It does not mean that the Holy Prophet ever erred, because Quran expressively says in Najm: 2 to 4: "Errs not your companion, nor is he led astray, nor he speaks of (his own) desire. It is naught but a revelation revealed (unto him)." It means the prophet was infallible. In several other places the Quran asserts that the Holy Prophet only followed the divine revelation under every circumstance. For further clarification see Duha: 7. The statement in this verse is used to signify that without the divine guidance, the prophet would have been subject to error. On this subject Imam Ali says: "Since his birth, the Holy Prophet was under divine guidance through the greatest angelical entity."