﴿ وَإِنَّ لَنَا لَلْءَاخِرَةَ وَٱلْأُولَىٰ ﴾

“and, behold, Ours is [the dominion over] the life to come as well as [over] this earlier part [of your life]:”

Truly to Us belong the Hereafter and the first [life].The Hereafter is the spiritual self (nafs al-rūḥ), and the first [life] [i.e. this world] is the natural self (nafs al-ṭabʿ). He guides one person in the direction of [his] spiritual self and another in the direction of [his] natural self.His words, Exalted is He: