15 Preface إِنَّ السّاعَةَ آتِيَةٌ أَكادُ أُخفيها لِتُجزىٰ كُلُّ نَفسٍ بِما تَسعىٰYusuf Ali“Verily the Hour is coming -1 My design is to keep it hidden -2 for every soul to receive its reward by the measure of its Endeavour.The first need is to mend our lives and worship and serve God, as in the last verse. The next is to realise the meaning of the Hereafter, when every soul will get the meed of its conduct in this life.Ukhfi may mean either “keep it hidden”, or “make it manifest”, and the Commentators have taken, some one meaning and some the other. If the first is taken, it means that the exact hour or day when the Judgment comes is hidden from man; if the second, it means that the fact of the Judgment to come is made known, that man may remember and take warning. I think that both meanings are implied. (R).