And they say, "When we are bones and crumbled particles, will we (17:49)

﴿وَقَالُوا أَإِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا وَرُفَاتًا أَإِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقًا جَدِيدًا﴾
[ الإسراء: 49]

17:49 And they say, "When we are bones and crumbled particles, will we [truly] be resurrected as a new creation?"

The idolaters said in denial of resurrection: When we die and become bones and our bodies decompose, will we be resurrected again? This is impossible.

And they say: "When we are bones and fragments (destroyed), should we really be resurrected (to be) a new creation?"

phonetic Transliteration

Waqaloo aitha kunna AAithaman warufatan ainna lamabAAoothoona khalqan jadeedan

Abdullah Yusuf Ali - Translation

They say: "What! when we are reduced to bones and dust, should we really be raised up (to be) a new creation?"

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And they say: "When we are bones and fragments (destroyed), should we really be resurrected (to be) a new creation"

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