22 Preface وُجوهٌ يَومَئِذٍ ناضِرَةٌYusuf AliSome faces, that Day,1 will beam (in brightness and beauty);-This passage (especially with reference to verses 26-28) would seem to refer to what our Doctors call the Lesser Judgment (at Qiyamah al Sughra), which takes place immediately after death, and not to the Greater or General Judgment, which may be supposed to be referred to in such passages as occur in S. 56. There are other passages referring to the Lesser Judgment immediately after death; e.g., 7:37 etc. If I understand aright, the punishment of sin takes place in three ways; (1) it may take place in this very life, but this may be deferred, to give the sinner respite; (2) it may be an agony immediately after death, with the Partition or Barzakh (23:100) separating the sinner from the final Resurrection; and (3) in the final Resurrection, when the whole of the present order gives place to a wholly new World: 14:48.