Warabbuka yaAAlamu ma tukinnu sudooruhum wama yuAAlinoon (surah Qasas: 69)

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

(28:69) Your Lord knows what they hide in their hearts and what they reveal. *91

Wa Rabbuka ya`lamu maa tukinnu sudooruhum wa maa yu`linoon

*91) The object for which this thing has been said in this context is: A person (or persons) can make a claim before the people in this world that he is fully satisfied on rational grounds that the deviation he has adopted is sound and right, and the arguments that are given against it are not convincing; that he has adopted the deviation not due to any evil motive but with the sincerest and purest intentions; that he has never been confronted by anything that might have proved him to be in the wrong. But he cannot advance such an argument before Allah, for Allah is not only aware of the open, but also of the hidden secrets of the mind and heart: He knows directly what kind of knowledge and feelings and sentiments and desires and intentions and conscience a certain person has: He is aware of the occasions and the means and the ways through which a person was warned, through which the Truth reached him, through which falsehood was proved to be Falsehood to him, and also the real motives for which he preferred his deviation to the Right Way.