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Surah Al-Isra, Verse 98

سورة الإسراء، الآية ٩٨

17:98 Juz 15 Hizb 29 Page 292 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 17:98

ذَٰلِكَ جَزَآؤُهُم بِأَنَّهُمْ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا وَقَالُوٓا۟ أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَٰمًا وَرُفَٰتًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقًا جَدِيدًا ۝٩٨

Transliteration

dhālika jazāuhum bi-annahum kafarū biāyātinā waqālū a-idhā kunnā ʿiẓāman warufātan a-innā lamabʿūthūna khalqan jadīdan

Translation

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?"

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Verse 98 of Surah Al-Isra (17:98), a Meccan surah, is in juz 15, on page 292 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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Tafsir of verse 98

Al-Mukhtasar

That punishment which they will meet is their recompense due to their denial of my signs which I sent to my Messengers, and because they said, considering resurrection to be improbable: When we die and turn in to decomposed bones and scattered particles, will we be resurrected after this as a new creation?

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Other translations of verse 98

That will be their recompense because they rejected Our verses and said, “What! When we are turned into bones and crumbled particles, will we really be raised as a new creation?”

That is their recompense, because they denied Our Ayât (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) and said: "When we are bones and fragments, shall we really be raised up as a new creation?"

That is their reward because they disbelieved Our revelations and said: When we are bones and fragments shall we, forsooth, be raised up as a new creation?

That is their recompense, because they rejected Our signs, and said, "When we are reduced to bones and broken dust, should we really be raised up (to be) a new Creation?"

This is their retribution because they disbelieved in Our communications and said What! when we shall have become bones and decayed particles, shall we then indeed be raised up into a new creation?

That is their recompense for that they disbelieved in Our signs and said, "Is it (true) that when we are bones and decomposed remains, surely will we indeed be made to rise again as a new creation?"

Verse 98 word by word

  1. ذَٰلِكَ dhālika That
  2. جَزَآؤُهُم jazāuhum (is) their recompense ج ز ي
  3. بِأَنَّهُمْ bi-annahum because they
  4. كَفَرُوا۟ kafarū disbelieved ك ف ر
  5. بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا biāyātinā in Our Verses أ ي ي
  6. وَقَالُوٓا۟ waqālū and said ق و ل
  7. أَءِذَا a-idhā When
  8. كُنَّا kunnā we are ك و ن
  9. عِظَٰمًا ʿiẓāman bones ع ظ م
  10. وَرُفَٰتًا warufātan and crumbled particles ر ف ت
  11. أَءِنَّا a-innā will we
  12. لَمَبْعُوثُونَ lamabʿūthūna surely (be) resurrected ب ع ث
  13. خَلْقًا khalqan (as) a creation خ ل ق
  14. جَدِيدًا jadīdan new ج د د

Verses related to verse 98

Verses with similar wording

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  • Al-Isra 17:49

    وَقَالُوٓا۟ أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَٰمًا وَرُفَٰتًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقًا جَدِيدًا

    And they say, "When we are bones and crumbled particles, will we [truly] be resurrected as a new creation?"

  • An-Nazi’at 79:11

    أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَٰمًا نَّخِرَةً

    Even if we should be decayed bones?"

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