25وَأَقبَلَ بَعضُهُم عَلىٰ بَعضٍ يَتَساءَلونَMuhammad AsadAnd they [who are thus blest] will turn to one another, asking each other [about their past lives].1This symbolic "asking one another about their past lives" is meant to bring out the fact, often stressed in the Qur'an, that man's individual consciousness invariably survives his bodily death, to continue unbroken in the life to come.