13وَإِنَّ لَنا لَلآخِرَةَ وَالأولىٰMuhammad Asadand, behold, Ours is [the dominion over] the life to come as well as [over] this earlier part [of your life]:1This statement is meant to stress the fact that man's life in this world and in the hereafter are but two stages of one continuous entity.