say i do not know whether that with which you are threatened be nigh or whether my lord will appoint for it a term the knower of the unseen! so he does not reveal his secrets to any except to him whom he chooses as an apostle for surely he makes a guard to march before him and after him so that he may know that they have truly delivered the messages of their lord and he encompasses what is with them and he records the number of all things.
قل إن أدري أقريب ما توعدون أم يجعل له ربي أمدا عالم الغيب فلا يظهر على غيبه أحدا إلا من ارتضى من رسول فإنه يسلك من بين يديه ومن خلفه رصدا ليعلم أن قد أبلغوا رسالات ربهم وأحاط بما لديهم وأحصى كل شيء عددا