Verse. 2078

١٧ - ٱلْإِسْرَاء

17 - Al-Isra

وَقَالُوْۗا ءَ اِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا وَّرُفَاتًا ءَاِنَّا لَمَبْعُوْثُوْنَ خَلْقًا جَدِيْدًا۝۴۹
Waqaloo aitha kunna AAithaman warufatan ainna lamabAAoothoona khalqan jadeedan

English

Ahmed Ali

Yet they say: "When we are turned to bones and bits, shall we be raised as a new creation?"

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (and they say) i.e. al-nadr ibn al-harth and his host: (when we are) rotten (bones and fragments) scattered dust, (shall we, forsooth, be raised up) shall we be revived (as a new creation) shall the spirit be renewed in us after death?

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and they say, in denial of the resurrection: ‘what, when we are bones and fragments, shall we really be raised up in a new creation?’