سورة الصافات، الآية ١٦
أَءِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ ١٦
a-idhā mit'nā wakunnā turāban waʿiẓāman a-innā lamabʿūthūna
When we have died and become dust and bones, are we indeed to be resurrected?
Verse 16 of Surah As-Saffat (37:16), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 446 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
79 recitations by 73 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
“So when we die and become dust and decomposed, crumbling bones, will we be resurrected alive after that? That is indeed, far-fetched.”
Is it that when we are dead and become dust and bones, will we really be raised up again,
"When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we (then) verily be resurrected?
When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then, forsooth, be raised (again)?
"What! when we die, and become dust and bones, shall we (then) be raised up (again)
What! when we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then certainly be raised,
When we die and are dust and bones, will we surely be made to rise again indeed?
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
قَالُوٓا۟ أَءِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ
They said, "When we have died and become dust and bones, are we indeed to be resurrected?
أَءِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَدِينُونَ
That when we have died and become dust and bones, we will indeed be recompensed?'"
وَكَانُوا۟ يَقُولُونَ أَئِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ
And they used to say, "When we die and become dust and bones, are we indeed to be resurrected?
أَءِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا ذَٰلِكَ رَجْعٌۢ بَعِيدٌ
When we have died and have become dust, [we will return to life]? That is a distant [i.e., unlikely] return."
