Surah 20. Ta-Ha, Ayah 110

For an explanation of this phrase - which occurs in exactly the same wording in 2:255 , {21: 28} and 22:76 as well - see surah {2}, note [247].

 Allah fully knows what fate awaits them and what they did in the world.

 Or “… they cannot encompass His knowledge.”

Cf.ii. 255 and n. 297. The slight difference in phraseology (which I have tried to preserve in the Translation) will be understood as a beauty when we reflect that here our attention is directed to the Day of Judgment, and in ii. 255 the wording is general, and applies to our present state also.