despite the fact that [both] the life to come and this present [one] belong to God [alone]?

But it is to God that the End and the Beginning (of all things) belong.

But unto Allah belongeth the after (life), and the former.

So they said: What! A single mortal from among us! Shall we follow him? We shall then be in sure error and distress.

Rather, to Allah belongs the Hereafter and the first [life].