So they disputed with one another about their affair and kept the discourse secret.

And certainly he warned them of Our violent seizure, but they obstinately disputed the warning.

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.
Life itself had become a secret affair.

This is that he might know that I have not been unfaithful to him in secret and that Allah does not guide the device of the unfaithful.

And they call (it) a lie, and follow their low desires; and every affair has its appointed term.