And when He negated from them what is hidden, and concluded their argument, glorified and exalted is He, with this condition, it was possible that the short-sighted and stagnant thinker might assume the lack of knowledge about what he is upon. He removed that in a general manner and confirmed it by saying: ﴿Indeed, Allah﴾ meaning: the One who encompasses everything in power and knowledge ﴿knows﴾ meaning: by way of the establishment of the attribute and the purity of the attachment and its continuity whenever a new occurrence arises or is such that it arises ﴿the unseen of the heavens﴾ meaning: all of them ﴿and the earth﴾ likewise.

And when generalization was intended without restriction to the two horizons, He made clear and did not conceal His saying: ﴿And Allah﴾ meaning: the One who has encompassed that and other than it from what you do not know ﴿is All-Seeing﴾ meaning: fully knowledgeable, both outwardly and inwardly ﴿of what you do﴾ from the outward of your Islam and the inward of your faith in the past, present, and future, whether it is outward or inward, whether it has occurred and thus you know it or it is ingrained in your nature and is hidden from you. This is based on the reading of the address, which is a turning towards them to rescue whoever among them has this assumption, and it is more eloquent. And based on the reading of Ibn Kathir, the unseen will be in the first style of what the Prophet ﷺ was commanded to convey to them. So, glorified and exalted is He, He is knowledgeable of who has concealed in his heart faith, and who is adapting to disbelief, and who dies upon what he is upon, and who changes his state by being distanced from it or drawn towards it. Al-Qushayri, may Allah have mercy on him, said: And whoever stops here will find life difficult for him; for he does not know what his unseen contains. In meaning, he said: (p-395)

I cry, and do you know what makes me cry? I cry for fear that you will part from me,

And cut my bond and abandon me.

It has ended.

And in that is the greatest warning and intimidation for whoever puts forth between the hands of Allah and His Messenger, even if his advancement is in secret; for there is no more severe threat than the encompassing of knowledge. It is as if it was said: Do not put forth between His hands; for indeed Allah encompasses knowledge, so He knows your secret and your open. This last one has returned to the first, and it is intertwined with it like the root with the connector.