From this verse and its context, it is established for us that our Master, the Commander of the Faithful, is the Creator in His very essence (al-Bari bi-dhatihi). This is because it clarifies that the knowledge of the unseen is something exclusive to the Creator alone, and He does not disclose it to anyone unless it be a messenger He has approved for the delivery [of the message], to whom He imparts it.

Thus, the knowledge of the unseen is intrinsic and spontaneous (dhati tilqa'i) in relation to Allah, and acquired and bestowed (muktasab mawhub) in relation to the Messenger. Therefore, it is intrinsic with the Creator, and relative (nisbi) with His Messenger. And Ali bin Abi Talib was not a messenger receiving revelation, so that we might say that what he spoke of the unseen was by revelation from Allah.

What is stated in this verse refutes the argument of those who say that the knowledge of the unseen issuing from our Master, the Commander of the Faithful, was through the teaching of the Prophet (exalted be his might), because the verse contains a negation of disclosing it to any of the created beings, restricting it solely to the Messenger whom Allah approves.