Tafseer of The Believers · Al-Muminoon · 23:82
They said, "When we have died and become dust and bones, are we indeed to be resurrected?
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قَالُوا أَئِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَامًا (They said: When we are dead and have become dust and bones), that is to say: When we are dead and our bodies have decayed and our bones have been stripped bare of flesh, will we أَئِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ (truly be raised up?), that is to say: be raised from our graves as living beings, in the same state as we were before death? This is something that cannot possibly come to pass.
