The discourse concerning the interpretation of the statement of the Exalted: {"And I know what you reveal and what you have been concealing" (33)}
Abū Jaʿfar said: The scholars of interpretation differed regarding the interpretation of that. It was narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās regarding that what:
678 - Abū Kurayb narrated to us, he said: ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, he said: Bishr ibn ʿUmāra narrated to us, from Abū Rawq, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, from Ibn ʿAbbās: "And I know what you reveal," he says: What you disclose, "and what you have been concealing," he says: I know the secret just as I know the open. Meaning: What Iblīs concealed within his soul of pride and delusion. (1)
679 - And Mūsā ibn Hārūn narrated to me, he said: ʿAmr ibn Ḥammād narrated to us, he said: Asbāṭ narrated to us, from al-Suddī in a report he mentioned, from Abū Mālik, and from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Ibn ʿAbbās, and from Murra, from Ibn Masʿūd, and from some people among the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him: "And I know what you reveal and what you have been concealing," he said: Their statement: "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein?"—so this is what they revealed; "and what you have been concealing," meaning what Iblīs kept secret within his soul of pride. (2)
680 - And Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Ahwāzī narrated to us, he said: Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī narrated to us, he said: ʿAmr ibn Thābit narrated to us, from his father, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, regarding His statement: "And I know what you reveal and what you have been concealing," he said: What Iblīs kept secret within his soul. (3)
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