THE DEEDS THAT ACCOMPANY MAN ….82.5

 

 

* The Ultimate saving...The deeds that accompany man....82.5 *

 

Al-Infitaar : 5

 

* عَلِمَتْ نَفْسٌ مَّا قَدَّمَتْ وَأَخَّرَتْ *

 

* A soul will [then] know what it has put forth and kept back. *

 

_The words "ma qaddamat wa akhkharat" can have several meanings and all are implied here:_

 

*(1)* "Ma qaddamat" is the good or evil act which man has sent forward, and "ma akhkharat" is what he refrained from doing.

 

_Thus, these Arabic words correspond to the acts of commission and omission in one’s life._

 

*(2)* "Ma qaddamat" is what one did earlier and "ma akhkharat" what one did later

 

_ i.e. the whole life-work of man will appear before him date-wise and in proper sequence. _

 

*(3)* Whatever good and evil deeds a man did in his life is "ma qaddamat" and whatever effects and influences of his acts he left behind for human society is "ma akhkharat."

 

▪ _ Each soul will come face to face with what it has done and what it has left behind of the consequences of its actions; or, what it has enjoyed in this present life and what it has saved for the Hereafter._

 

▪ Such knowledge, however, will accompany these horrific events.

 

▪ It will indeed be part of them, for it terrifies the soul no less than any of the other events.