أَءِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًۭا ۖ ذَٰلِكَ رَجْعٌۢ بَعِيدٌۭ
'A-izaa mitnaa wa kunnaa turaaban zaalika raj'um ba'eed
When we have died and have become dust, [we will return to life]? That is a distant return."
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Day of Judgment
50:3Ayah 145
9 ayahs in Qaaf are strongly about the Day of Judgment. This is one of them.
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What! read a-idhā pronouncing both hamzas or not pronouncing the second but inserting an alif between the two in both cases When we are dead and have become dust? shall we return to life? That is a far-fetched return!’ an event that is extremely remote.
Related Hadiths
"when a person is placed in his grave and his companions depart from him, he hears the sound of their sandals."
Abu Huraira said, "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, 'Between the two sounds of the trumpet, there will be forty."
Somebody asked Abu Huraira, "Forty days?" But he refused to reply. Then he asked, "Forty months?"
He refused to reply. Then he asked, "Forty years?" Again, he refused to reply. Abu Huraira added.
"Then (after this period) Allah will send water from the sky and then the dead bodies will grow like
vegetation grows, There is nothing of the human body that does not decay except one bone; that is the
little bone at the end of the coccyx of which the human body will be recreated on the Day of
Resurrection." (See Hadith No. 338)
"Three follow the deceased, two of them return, and one remains. He is followed by his family, his wealth, and his deeds. So his family and his wealth returns, and his deeds remain."
“When
I die, then wash me with seven buckets from me well, the well of
Ghars.”
A man was buried with my father. I had a desire at heart for that (place for my burial). So I took him out after six months. I did not find any change (in his body) except a few hair that touched the earth.
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