(49–52) “They say, ‘When we have become bones and crumbled remains, will we truly be raised as a new creation?’”

Allah Most High informs us of the words of those who deny the resurrection, reject it, and deem it far-fetched. They say: “When we have become bones and crumbled remains”—that is, decayed bodies—“will we truly be raised as a new creation?” In other words, they claim that this will never happen and is impossible. They displayed the grossest ignorance by rejecting Allah’s messengers, denying His signs, and comparing the power of the Creator of the heavens and the earth to their own feeble and helpless power.

When they saw that this was impossible for them and beyond their ability, they assumed that Allah’s power was likewise.

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Glory be to Him who has made some of His creatures—who claim to possess reason and understanding—an example of ignorance concerning the most evident and manifest of all truths, whose proofs are the clearest and loftiest. Thus He shows His servants that there are only two outcomes: His granting of success and assistance, or ruin and misguidance.

“Our Lord, do not let our hearts deviate after You have guided us, and grant us mercy from Yourself. You are indeed the Bestower.”

For this reason, He instructed His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) to say to those who denied the resurrection because they deemed it far-fetched: