Tafseer of The Believers · Al-Muminoon · 23:35
Does he promise you that when you have died and become dust and bones that you will be brought forth [once more]?
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His saying: أَيَعِدُكُمْ أَنَّكُمْ إِذَا مِتُّمْ وَكُنْتُمْ تُرَابًا وَعِظَامًا (the Āya) — Allah, the Exalted, says: They said: Does Ṣāliḥ promise you that when you have died and become dust in your graves, and bones whose flesh has decayed from your bodies so that only the bones remain — that you will be brought forth alive from your graves, as you were before your death? And the word أَنَّكُمْ is repeated twice, while the meaning is only one: you will be brought forth — because between the first أَنَّكُمْ and its predicate the word "idhā" (when) intervenes. The Arabs likewise do this with every noun governed by the verb "to suppose" and its sister-verbs, after which a conditional clause intervenes before the predicate: one either repeats the noun or omits it. One says: "I suppose that if you sit with us, that you are then benevolent" — when one omits the first "that" or the second, it is correct; and when one affirms both, it is also correct; but when one places nothing in between, it is a grammatical error to say: "I suppose that that you sit." It is also mentioned that this, in the reading of ʿAbd Allāh, reads: أَيَعِدُكُمْ أَنَّكُمْ إِذَا مِتُّمْ وَكُنْتُمْ تُرَابًا وَعِظَامًا أَنَّكُمْ مُخْرَجُونَن .
