Alam yaAAlam bi-anna Allaha yara (surah Al Alaq: 14)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(96:14) Does he not know that Allah sees everything? *11

Alam y`alam bi-an nal lahaa yaraa

*11) The audience here apparently is every just man, who is being asked: Have you watched the act of the person who prevents a Servant from God's worship? What do you think: if the Servant be rightly guided, or warning the people to fear God and refrain from evil, and this forbidden be denying the Truth and turning away from it, what will his act be like? Could this man adopt such an attitude had he known that Allah is watching the man who is exhorting others to piety as well as him who is denying the truth and turning away from it? Allah's watching the oppressor and his wrongdoing and the oppressed and his misery by itself implies that He will punish the oppressor and redress the grievances of the wronged and down-trodden person.