Tafsir Ibn Abbas: An-Naazi'aat, Ayah 11

أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَٰمًۭا نَّخِرَةًۭ

Even if we should be decayed bones?

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Even after we are crumbled bones?) Will Allah resurrect us? How is this possible?

Scholars offer complementary perspectives

What! When we have been decayed bones?’ nakhira a variant reading has nākhira ‘decayed and withered’ will we have life again?

“Breaking the bones of the deceased is, in sin, like breaking his bones when he is alive.”

“Breaking the bones of the deceased is like breaking his bones when he is alive.”