And He, Glorified is He, has explained the arguments of those who deny the Resurrection, answered them, and established its truth in ways that would take too long to examine exhaustively here. For example, He says:

“He makes comparisons for Us, forgetting his own creation. He says, ‘Who will give life to bones when they have crumbled to dust?’ * Say, ‘He who created them the first time will give them life, and He has full knowledge of every creation— * He who produces fire for you from the green tree, from which you then kindle a flame.’”

And so the verses continue. This is a broad subject, which this is not the place to discuss at length.

As for the verse mentioned by the speaker cited earlier, namely His saying:

“Were We at a loss in the first creation?”

The Arabs use the verbs ‘ayya and ‘ayiya concerning someone’s affair when he cannot see how to proceed. A man says, “I am at a loss over my affair,” when he cannot see how to proceed, and, “It has baffled me.” The poet said:

They were at a loss over their affair,
As the dove was at a loss over her egg.

Someone who is at a loss over a matter is unable to deal with it, as when he does not know what to do about it.

Thus He, Glorified is He, asks a rhetorical question that implies the negation of what is asked and indicates that this is known to the person addressed:

“Were We at a loss in the first creation?”

Were We, then, without knowledge of what to do in creating it, or without the power to do so? Or did We create it through Our knowledge and power, achieving such precision and perfection in it as demonstrated the perfection of Our knowledge, wisdom, and power?

This is like His saying:

“Have they not seen that Allah, who created the heavens