The Holy Quran 17:49 — Surah Al-Isra

Arabic text

وَقَالُوٓا۟ أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَـٰمًا وَرُفَـٰتًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقًا جَدِيدًا

Translation

They (the Kuffaar mockingly) say, “Is it that when we turn into bones and pieces (when our bodies decompose after death), we will be resurrected (raised)as a new creation?"

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Astonishment at a second life: that is, applying to you the likenesses of one bewitched and possessed, or of a poet, a soothsayer and the like, was astonishing enough; more astonishing still is the argument they used to put forward to prove (Allah forbid) that [you] were bewitched and possessed.

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