۞ إِنَّمَا يَسْتَجِيبُ ٱلَّذِينَ يَسْمَعُونَ ۘ وَٱلْمَوْتَىٰ يَبْعَثُهُمُ ٱللَّهُ ثُمَّ إِلَيْهِ يُرْجَعُونَ
Innamaa yastajeebul lazeena yasma'oon; walmawtaa yab'asuhumul laahu summa ilaihi yurja'oon
Only those who hear will respond. But the dead - Allah will resurrect them; then to Him they will be returned.
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Day of Judgment
6:36Ayah 1165
22 ayahs in Al-An'aam are strongly about the Day of Judgment. This is one of them.
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Only those who hear in such a way so as to understand and take heed will answer your call to faith; as for the dead that is the disbelievers — they are likened to them on account of their inability to hear — God will resurrect them in the Hereafter and then to Him they will be returned and He will requite them for their deeds.
Related Hadiths
The Prophet (ﷺ) looked at the people of the well (the well in which the bodies of the pagans killed in the
Battle of Badr were thrown) and said, "Have you found true what your Lord promised you?"
Somebody said to him, "You are addressing dead people." He replied, "You do not hear better than
they but they cannot reply."
The Prophet (ﷺ) stood at the well of Badr (which contained the corpses of the pagans) and said, "Have
you found true what your lord promised you?" Then he further said, "They now hear what I say." This
was mentioned before `Aisha and she said, "But the Prophet (ﷺ) said, 'Now they know very well that what
I used to tell them was the truth.' Then she recited (the Holy Verse):-- "You cannot make the dead
hear... ...till the end of Verse)." (30.52)
O Abu Jahl b. Hisham, O Umayya b. Khalaf, O Utba b. Rab'ila, O Shaiba b. Rabi'a, have you not found what your Lord had promised with you to be correct? As for me, I have found the promises of my Lord to be (perfectly) correct. Umar listened to the words of Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) and said: Allah's Messenger, how do they listen and respond to you? They are dead and their bodies have decayed. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: By Him in Whose Hand is my life, what I am saying to them, even you cannot hear more distinctly than they, but they lack the power to reply. Then'he commanded that they should be buried in the well of Badr.
I heard Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying. Every servant would be raised (in the same very state) in which he dies.
"During the night, the Muslims heard the Messenger of Allah standing and calling out at the well of badr; 'O Abu Jahl bin Hisham! O Shaaibh bin Rabiah! O 'Utbah bin Rabiah! O Umayyah bin Khalaf! Have you found what your Lord promised to be true? For I have found what my Lord promised me to be true.' They said: 'O Messenger of Allah, are you calling out to people who have turned into rotten corpses?' He said: 'You do not hear what I say any better than they do, but they cannot answer.'"
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