Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: As-Saaffaat, Ayah 53

As-Saaffaat · Ayah 53 · View Ayah
أَءِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًۭا وَعِظَٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَدِينُونَ
That when we have died and become dust and bones, we will indeed be recompensed?'"

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

that when we are dead and have become dust and bones we shall actually be called to account?” ’ that we shall be requited and reckoned with — he rejects the truth of this as well as regards all three instances of the hamzas sc. a-innaka a-idhā and a-innā what has been mentioned above applies.

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(Can we, when we are dead and have become mere dust and) rotten (bones, can we (then) verily be brought to book) because he denied resurrection after death?

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