قَالُوٓا۟ أَءِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًۭا وَعِظَٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ
Qaalooo 'a-izaa mitnaa wa kunnaa turaabanw wa 'izaaman 'a-innaa lamab 'oosoon
They said, "When we have died and become dust and bones, are we indeed to be resurrected?
Themes in this ayah
Explore in Habl →Scores run 0–100: how strongly this ayah speaks to a theme. 70+ is central, 50+ is clear, under 50 is weak.
3 other themes with weak connections
Labeled by AI and people · How this worksFollow this theme through Al-MuminoonFollow this theme
Day of Judgment
23:82Ayah 1118
13 ayahs in Al-Muminoon are strongly about the Day of Judgment. This is one of them.
← Previous on Day of Judgment23:79And it is He who has multiplied you throughout the earth, and to Him you will be gathered.Next on Day of Judgment →23:100That I might do righteousness in that which I left behind." No! It is only a word he is saying; and behind them is a barrier until the Day they are resurrected.
Tafsir
Scholars offer complementary perspectives
They the ancients said ‘What when we are dead and have become dust and bones shall we then be raised? No! the two hamzas in each of the two instances are either pronounced fully or with the second one not pronounced but with an alif inserted between the two hamzas in both readings.
Related Hadiths
There is a bone in the human being which the earth would never consume and it is from this that new bodies would be reconstituted (on the Day of Resurrection). They said: Allah's Messenger, which bone is that? Thereupon he said: It is the spinal bone.
“There is no part of man that will not disintegrate, apart from
a
single bone at the base of the coccyx, from which he will be
recreated on the Day of Resurrection.”
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Between the two blowing of the trumpet there will be forty." The people said, "O
Abu Huraira! Forty days?" I refused to reply. They said, "Forty years?" I refused to reply and added:
Everything of the human body will decay except the coccyx bone (of the tail) and from that bone
Allah will reconstruct the whole body.
`Uqba said to Hudhaifa, "Won't you narrate to us what you heard from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) ?" Hudhaifa
said, "I heard him saying, 'Death approached a man and when he had no hope of surviving, he said to
his family, 'When I die, gather for me much wood and build a fire (to burn me),. When the fire has
eaten my flesh and reached my bones, take the bones and grind them and scatter the resulting powder
in the sea on a hot (or windy) day.' (That was done.) But Allah collected his particles and asked (him),
'Why did you do so?' He replied, 'For fear of You.' So Allah forgave him."
Narrated `Abdu Malik:
As above, saying, "On a windy day."
“Breaking the bones of the deceased is like breaking his bones when
he
is alive.”
Related Topics
Related Ayahs
Loading related ayahs…