5 Preface عَلِمَت نَفسٌ ما قَدَّمَت وَأَخَّرَتYusuf Ali(Then) shall each soul know what it hath sent forward1 and (what it hath) kept back.Sent Forward and kept back: may mean: the deeds of commission and omission in this life. Or the Arabic words may also be translated: sent forward and left behind: i.e., the spiritual possibilities which it sent forward for its other life, and the physical things on which it prided itself in this life, but which it had to leave behind in this life. Or else, the things it put first and the things it put last in importance may change places in the new world of Reality. “The first shall be last and the last shall be first”.