Overall meaning : The Almighty says: Allah knows what you, people, conceal and what you reveal, and He will repay you for your deeds on the Day of Judgement. The idols that the idolaters worship besides Allah cannot create anything but are themselves created. How can they, then, worship them? They are all lifeless inanimate objects, and they do not know when Allah will resurrect them. Your God, who is truly deserving of worship, is only One God. But because of the false pride of the unbelievers who deny the hereafter and the reward and punishment in it, their hearts deny Allah’s grace, oneness and power, and are too proud to accept the truth. There is no doubt that Allah is fully aware of the idolaters’ secret refusal to admit the truth and their open unbelief and disobedience, and He will surely punish them for that. He certainly does not like those who are too proud to admit His unity and worship Him alone. When they are asked, ‘What has your Lord revealed to Muhammad?’ they lie, saying, ‘Nothing has been revealed to him, and this Qur’an is nothing but fables of the ancients.’ Hence, they will bear their sins in full on the Day of Judgement as well as some of the sins of those they have misled and who have followed them without knowledge. Evil indeed are the heavy sins they will bear!