سورة الإسراء، الآية ٤٩
وَقَالُوٓا۟ أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَٰمًا وَرُفَٰتًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقًا جَدِيدًا ٤٩
waqālū a-idhā kunnā ʿiẓāman warufātan a-innā lamabʿūthūna khalqan jadīdan
And they say, "When we are bones and crumbled particles, will we [truly] be resurrected as a new creation?"
Verse 49 of Surah Al-Isra (17:49), a Meccan surah, is in juz 15, on page 286 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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The idolaters said in denial of resurrection: When we die and become bones and our bodies decompose, will we be resurrected again? This is impossible.
They say, “What! When we are turned into bones and dust, will we really be resurrected as a new creation?”
And they say: "When we are bones and fragments (destroyed), should we really be resurrected (to be) a new creation?"
And they say: When we are bones and fragments, shall we forsooth, be raised up as a new creation?
They say: "What! when we are reduced to bones and dust, should we really be raised up (to be) a new creation?"
And they say: What! when we shall have become bones and decayed particles, shall we then certainly be raised up, being a new creation?
And they said, "Is it (true) that when we are bones and decomposed remains, will we indeed be made to rise again (as) a new creation?"
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
ذَٰلِكَ جَزَآؤُهُم بِأَنَّهُمْ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا وَقَالُوٓا۟ أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَٰمًا وَرُفَٰتًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقًا جَدِيدًا
That is their recompense because they disbelieved in Our verses and said, "When we are bones and crumbled particles, will we [truly] be resurrected [in] a new creation?"
أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَٰمًا نَّخِرَةً
Even if we should be decayed bones?"
