أَءِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًۭا وَعِظَٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ
'A-izaa mitnaa wa kunnaa turaabanw wa 'izaaman 'ainnaa lamab'oosoon
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.
4 other themes with weak connections
Labeled by AI and people · How this worksFollow this theme through As-SaaffaatFollow this theme
Day of Judgment
37:16Ayah 1182
15 ayahs in As-Saaffaat are strongly about the Day of Judgment. This is one of them.
Tafsir
Scholars offer complementary perspectives
When we are dead and have become dust and bones shall we indeed be resurrected? In both places sc. a-idhā and a-innā either pronounce both hamzas or read without pronouncing the second one and inserting an alif between them in both cases.
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.”
Related Topics
Related Ayahs
Loading related ayahs…