Thus, the despair is of those who carried the burden of injustice on their backs.

Thus, the despair is of those who carried the burden of injustice on their backs. Since the attendance of humankind in the resurrection plain for reckoning and retribution needs Allah’s awareness from their deeds, the Qur’an in this verse implies that Allah knows whatever the sinners will have in front of them and whatever they have done in the world and have passed in their behind.

He knows them all so that He is aware of their whole deeds, sayings, and intentions in the past, and knows the retribution they will confront in future; but they do not encompass His knowledge. The verse says: “He knows what is before them and what is behind them, but they (people) do not comprehend Him in (their) knowledge.” Thus the encompassment of the knowledge of…