Surah 30. Ar-Rum, Ayah 7

The term al-akhirah circumscribes, in this context. both the inner reality of this world's life and the ultimate reality of the hereafter.

Men are misled by the outward show of things, though the inner reality may be quite different. Many seeming disasters are really godsends if we only understood.

AKhirat: may refer to the End of things or enterprises in history as well as the Hereafter in the technical theological sense.