I've just read the proof of $\S4$ (iv) in Mumford's "Abelian Varieties", on page 42-43, which says that multiplication by $n$ not divisible by $p=\text{char}(k)$ on an abelian variety $X$ is surjective.
I can understand that it works (as in, I can follow the proof line by line), yet I don't have intuition for it. In particular, I don't understand why does passing to tangent spaces work. It may be my poor understanding of tangent spaces and differentials.
It seems to say something along the lines of "surjectivity of multiplication by $n$" can be checked on first order linear approximations". Does this make any sense? Would this make sense for more general isogenies? A reference where this is discussed in more detail would also be welcome.