And when there had preceded from the intimidation and the enticing that which is a cause for their inclination and fear of turning away specifically, it was appropriate to say: Did they turn towards it? It was said: No. He clarified that turning away is inwardly like turning away outwardly; for the inward is the essence, confirming that it is a matter that is hardly believable. The confirmation is more effective in reproaching them: "Indeed, they"—meaning the disbelievers who are obstinate—"turn their chests"—that is, they fold them and deviate from the truth out of malice without inclination. For whoever turns towards something does so with their chest. "To hide from Him"—that is, they want to create concealment of their secret to the utmost extent of its matter. If their intention by turning is to hide from Allah, the Exalted, then the matter in returning the pronoun to Him, glorified and exalted is He, is clear. And if it is from the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, then hiding from him is hiding from the One who sent him. Then it was made known that this does not avail them; for He knows their secret and their public in their most concealed states before them. And it is when they cover themselves with their garments, so they cover the faces that remain hidden from some of what is in their hearts for those who observe. He said: "Indeed, when they cover themselves with their garments"—that is, they create covering for their heads to hide their aversion to hearing the words of Allah and the news of His Messenger, blessings and peace be upon him. "He knows what they conceal"—that is, He places their secrets at any time and of any kind without delay for contemplation or reflection. And when there is no connection between the knowledge of the secret and the public, specific to the public with what is for absence or difference in voices and wording or difference in language and such, He stated explicitly: "And what they announce"—that is, they place their announcement without any difference in His knowledge between secrecy and announcement. So there is no reason for their hiding in hypocrisy, for the market of their hypocrisy is not hidden from Him, glorified and exalted is He. Then He explained it with something more precise than all of that while encompassing both types, saying: "Indeed, He is Knowing"—that is, He has profound knowledge very much—"of what is in the chests"—that is, of the intentions of their hearts that are within their chests, which they fold before their intention to conceal it, rather before He creates them. And the essence of folding is bending, and from it are the two—due to the bending of one of them towards the other—and praise—due to the bending of the virtues in commendation. And for this reason, when the servant said in Al-Fatiha: "The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" [Al-Fatiha: 3] after the praise, Allah, the Exalted, said: My servant has praised Me— as in the hadith: "I have divided prayer between Me and My servant into two halves." And the exception is for bending the second to the first by extracting from it; and hiding is the request for the concealment of a thing.