The Holy Quran 23:83 — Surah Al-Mu'minun

Arabic text

لَقَدْ وُعِدْنَا نَحْنُ وَءَابَآؤُنَا هَـٰذَا مِن قَبْلُ إِنْ هَـٰذَآ إِلَّآ أَسَـٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

Translation

"Our forefathers and ourselves were certainly promised the same from before. It (resurrection) is but a fable of the old men (and cannot be true)."

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The foolish doubts of the disbelievers about being raised to life after death: that is, there is nothing of reason or understanding in this; they simply go on blindly imitating the people of old and put forward the same antiquated doubts that their predecessors used to raise, namely: how shall we be brought to life after mingling with the earth and…

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