And when they were - due to the fact that humans are the most argumentative of things - perhaps they denied arrogance; and they claimed that if the truth were to appear to them, they would repent. He said - in response to one who seemed to say: Indeed, they do not refuse arrogance while they do not doubt that this is the speech of Allah -: "Certainly"; meaning: there is no doubt in "that Allah"; meaning: the One who encompasses everything in power and knowledge; "knows"; knowledge that is unseen and witnessed; "what they conceal"; meaning: they hide absolutely or in relation to some people; and when the knowledge of the secret does not necessitate the knowledge of the public - as has been stated more than once - he said: "and what they declare"; so it is what he informed of only about a matter that is definitive and does not accept dispute.

And when there was in that a meaning of threat; because the intended meaning is: So He will surely reward them for the precision of that and its clarity; without forgiving anything of it - as will be explicitly stated in His saying: "So they may bear their burdens complete" [An-Nahl: 25] -; he explained this meaning by saying: "Indeed, He"; meaning: the One who knows the secret; and the public; "does not love the arrogant"; meaning: those who are arrogant against the truth; regardless of what it may be.