Transliteration:( Yunabba 'ul insaanu yawma 'izim bimaa qaddama wa akhkhar )
13. This means that those good deeds which were done in one's young days and those in one's old days. But the rewards of the deeds of he younger days are greater and those of the older days are less. Or, the wealth, which had been given in the path of Allah Almighty, and the wealth that is left behind. Or, the good deed is done immediately at the first opportunity and that, which is done at a later stage an to the delay, is is sometimes not done at all.
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Please refer to Surah Qiyamah ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 15.
9. Bima qaddama wa akhkhara is a very comprehensive sentence, which can have several meanings and probably all are implied:
(1) That man on that Day will be told what good or evil he had earned in his worldly life before death and sent forward for his hereafter, and also informed what effects of his good or evil acts he had left behind in the world, which continued to work and to influence the coming generations for ages after him.
(2) That he will be told everything he ought to have done but which he did not do, and did what he ought not to have done.
(3) That the full date wise account of what he did before and what he did afterwards will be placed before him.
(4) That he will be told whatever good or evil he had done as well as informed of the good or the evil that he had left undone.
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