Tafseer of The Night Journey · Al-Israa · 17:50
Say, "Be you stones or iron
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Allah the Exalted says to His Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ: Say, O Muḥammad, to those of your people who deny the resurrection after death, who say أَئِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا وَرُفَاتًا أَئِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقًا جَدِيدًا (When we have become bones and crumbled dust, shall we then truly be raised up as a new creation?): If you marvel at Allah's new creation of you and His re-creation of your bodies as a new creation after your decaying into dust and your becoming crumbled dust, and if you deny that to be within His power — [then] be stones or iron, or a creation of whatever is great in your breasts, if you are able to do so. For I shall then bring you to life and raise you up as a new creation after you have become thus, just as I created you the first time.
