سورة ق، الآية ١٥
أَفَعَيِينَا بِٱلْخَلْقِ ٱلْأَوَّلِ بَلْ هُمْ فِى لَبْسٍ مِّنْ خَلْقٍ جَدِيدٍ ١٥
afaʿayīnā bil-khalqi l-awali bal hum fī labsin min khalqin jadīdin
Did We fail in the first creation? But they are in confusion over a new creation.
Verse 15 of Surah Qaf (50:15), a Meccan surah, is in juz 26, on page 518 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
80 recitations by 74 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
Am I then incapable of having created you in the first instance, that I am incapable of resurrecting you? Rather, they are in confusion about a new creation after their previous creation.
Were We wearied by their first creation? No indeed, yet they are in confusion concerning the second creation.
Were We then tired with the first creation? Nay, they are in confused doubt about a new creation (i.e. Resurrection).
Were We then worn out by the first creation? Yet they are in doubt about a new creation.
Were We then weary with the first Creation, that they should be in confused doubt about a new Creation?
Were We then fatigued with the first creation? Yet are they in doubt with regard to a new creation.
Did We then falter by the first creation? No indeed, (but) they are in confoundedness as to a new creation.
وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى يَبْدَؤُا۟ ٱلْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُۥ وَهُوَ أَهْوَنُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَهُ ٱلْمَثَلُ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ
And it is He who begins creation; then He repeats it, and that is [even] easier for Him. To Him belongs the highest description [i.e., attribute] in the heavens and earth. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.
وَضَرَبَ لَنَا مَثَلًا وَنَسِىَ خَلْقَهُۥ قَالَ مَن يُحْىِ ٱلْعِظَٰمَ وَهِىَ رَمِيمٌ …
And he presents for Us an example and forgets his [own] creation. He says, "Who will give life to bones while they are disintegrated?" …
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
بَلْ هُمْ فِى شَكٍّ يَلْعَبُونَ
But they are in doubt, amusing themselves.
