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Sura 41
Aya 22
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وَما كُنتُم تَستَتِرونَ أَن يَشهَدَ عَلَيكُم سَمعُكُم وَلا أَبصارُكُم وَلا جُلودُكُم وَلٰكِن ظَنَنتُم أَنَّ اللَّهَ لا يَعلَمُ كَثيرًا مِمّا تَعمَلونَ

Ali Unal

You did not seek to veil yourselves (when sinning) without ever considering that your ears, or your eyes, or your skins would one day bear witness against you. Moreover, you supposed that God did not know most of what you did habitually.1
  • Saying, you thought that God did not know most of what you used to do, instead of, you supposed that God did not know whatever you used to do, means that they believed in God as the Supreme Being with knowledge, but they acted recklessly as if they did not accept that God had no knowledge of most of what they used to do, or that they did not really believe in the all-encompassing nature of God’s Knowledge.