“and He will bring you forth once again.” This is the Resurrection: they will rise from their graves and proceed to the Place of Gathering. The Exalted One also says, “In it you live, in it you die, and from it you shall be brought forth.” (Surah al-Aʿraf 7:25) – meaning: you live upon its surface, you die within it, and from it you will be raised on the Day of Resurrection.

These are Qur’anic proofs for the Resurrection. The Qur’an further provides a rational proof: the One who had the power to originate creation is, a fortiori, able to recreate it. Allah says, “It is He who begins creation, then recreates it, and that is even easier for Him. To Him belongs the highest attribute in the heavens and the earth, and He is the Almighty, the All-Wise.” (Surah al-Rum 30:27) He who brought people into existence out of nothing is all the more capable of restoring them after death; this is both a scriptural and a rational proof.

Among the signs of the Resurrection is what happens to the earth when it comes to life through vegetation: you observe the land lifeless, barren of any growth, then Allah sends down rain upon it, and the very stalks that were dry and dead sprout anew. In like manner, human bodies lie stored within the earth; Allah will send down upon them a rain, whereupon the bodies will sprout, become complete, and then souls will be breathed back into them. You see how the earth is desolate and then comes to life with what grows from it; Allah, Glorified and Exalted, is the One who revives the earth after—