The Meccan Revelations: Page 387 from Volume Two

Know, may God help you, that shatah is a word that claims a right that expresses his rank that God has given him in terms of status with Him. He expresses it without a divine command, but in the way of pride in the rā’. If he commands it, he expresses by it a definition of a divine command, and this does not mean pride.

p> He, peace be upon him, said, “I am the master of the children of Adam, and there is no pride.

He says, ‘I did not mean to be proud of you with this definition, but I informed you of it for your interests in that and for you to know the favor of God upon you, by the rank of your prophet in the sight of God, and to be sloppy is the error of investigators if he is not commanded to do it,’ so he says it as he said it.” And this is why he explained, so he said, “No pride, for I know that I am a servant of God, just as you are servants of God, and the servant does not boast over the servant if the master is one.” And so Jesus said, so he began with servit