ٱللَّهُ يَبْدَؤُا۟ ٱلْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُۥ ثُمَّ إِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ
Allaahu yabda'ul khalqa summa yu'eeduhoo summa ilaihi turja'oon
Allah begins creation; then He will repeat it; then to Him you will be returned.
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Day of Judgment
30:11Ayah 160
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God originates creation in other words He produces the creation of mankind then He will reproduce it that is the creation of them after their death then to Him you shall be returned read turja‘ūna; or yurja‘ūna ‘they shall be returned’.
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" Allah has ordained whom he has to createuntil the Day of judgment."
There would be left some space in Paradise as Allah would like that to be left. Then Allah would create another creation as He would like.
"Allah decreed the measures fifty-thousand years before He created the Heavens and the earth."
"The people will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection naked and uncircumcised. The first one to be clothed will be Ibrahim." Then he recited: As We began the first creation, We shall repeat it
Verily Islam started as something strange and it would again revert (to its old position) of being strange just as it started, and it would recede between the two mosques just as the serpent crawls back into its hole.
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