5عَلِمَت نَفسٌ ما قَدَّمَت وَأَخَّرَتMuhammad Asadevery human being will [at last] comprehend, what he has sent ahead and what he has held back [in this world].1I.e., what he has done and what he has omitted to do. An alternative rendering would be "what he has placed forward and what he has placed behind", i.e., what he prized more and what less in his erstwhile, subjective valuation. Thus, at the moment of resurrection man will suddenly understand the true motivations and moral implications of whatever he did - or consciously refrained from doing - during his life in this world: and this applies to all the good deeds he did and the sins he refrained from, as well as to all the sins he committed and the good deeds he failed to do.