(3) وَ هُوَ اللَّهُ فِي السَّماواتِ وَ فِي الْأَرْضِ يَعْلَمُ سِرَّكُمْ وَ جَهْرَكُمْ وَ يَعْلَمُ ما تَكْسِبُونَ
3. " And He is Allah in the heavens and in the earth ! He knows your secret and your open, and He knows what you earn."
Commentary :
In answer to those who consider a separate god for every type of thing, such as god of rain, god of war, god of peace, god of sky, and the like of them (1), the verse says:
" And He is Allah in the heavens and in the earth ! ..."
It is obvious that the One Who dominates everywhere and in whose authority is the divise of everything, the Omnipresent, knows all the secret and concealed things. So, it is such that in the next sentence, the verse says:
"... He knows your secret and your open, and He knows what you earn."
The holy Prophet (p.b.u.h.) said: " Allah revealed Abraham (a.s.), saying: ' O' Ibrahim ! I am Aware and I like the aware ones'." (Al-Muhajjat-ul-Bayda', vol. 1, p. 15)
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(1) This is the very belief of 'masters of species' which was current in ancient Greece.