Surah Waqiah ayat 87 Tafsir Quran 56:87

﴿تَرْجِعُونَهَا إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ﴾
[ الواقعة: 87]

56:87 Bring it back, if you should be truthful?

do you not bring it back why do you not restore the spirit to the body after it has reached the throat if you are truthful? in what you claim the second law-lā ‘why … if’ is repeated to emphasise the first one; idhā ‘when’ is an adverbial particle qualifying tarji‘ūna ‘bring it back’ to which both conditions are semantically connected. The meaning is ‘Why do you not bring it back when in repudiating resurrection you are being truthful in this repudiation?’ That is to say ‘Let death also be repudiated as impossible in its case just as you claim that resurrection is impossible’.

Why then are you unable to restore the soul to the dying if what you claim is true

When the Soul reaches the Throat at the Time of Death, it cannot be brought back; this proves Reckon Allah the Exalted said, فَلَوْلاَ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ( Then why do you not (intervene ) when it reaches), in reference to the soul, الْحُلْقُومَ ( Al-Hulqum ), i.e., the throat, at the time of death.
Allah the Exalted said in other Ayat, كَلاَّ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ التَّرَاقِىَ - وَقِيلَ مَنْ رَاقٍ - وَظَنَّ أَنَّهُ الْفِرَاقُ - وَالْتَفَّتِ السَّاقُ بِالسَّاقِ - إِلَى رَبِّكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ الْمَسَاقُ ( Nay, when (the soul ) reaches to the collar bone, and it will be said: "Who can cure him ( and save him from death )" And he will conclude that it was ( the time ) of parting ( death ); And one leg will be joined with another leg ( shrouded ).
The drive will be on that Day to your Lord ( Allah ).)( 75:26-30 ) Allah said here, وَأَنتُمْ حِينَئِذٍ تَنظُرُونَ ( And you at the moment are looking, ) at the dying person and witnessing the stupor of death that he is experiencing, وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنكُمْ ( But We are nearer to him than you, ) with Our angels, وَلَـكِن لاَّ تُبْصِرُونَ ( but you see not. ) you cannot see the angels.
Allah the Exalted said in another Ayah, وَهُوَ الْقَاهِرُ فَوْقَ عِبَادِهِ وَيُرْسِلُ عَلَيْكُم حَفَظَةً حَتَّى إِذَا جَآءَ أَحَدَكُمُ الْمَوْتُ تَوَفَّتْهُ رُسُلُنَا وَهُمْ لاَ يُفَرِّطُونَ - ثُمَّ رُدُّواْ إِلَى اللَّهِ مَوْلَـهُمُ الْحَقِّ أَلاَ لَهُ الْحُكْمُ وَهُوَ أَسْرَعُ الْحَـسِبِينَ ( He is the Irresistible over His servants, and He sends guardians (angels ) over you, until when death approaches one of you, Our messengers ( angel of death and his assistants ) take his soul, and they never neglect their duty.
Then they are returned to Allah, their true Protector.
Surely, for Him is the judgement and He is the swiftest in taking account.)( 6:61-62 ) Allah's statement, فَلَوْلاَ إِن كُنتُمْ غَيْرَ مَدِينِينَ تَرْجِعُونَهَآ ( Then why do you not -- if you are not Madinin -- return the soul, ) means, `Will you not return this soul, that has reached the throat, to its body as it used to be, if you are exempt from the reckoning and recompense' Sa`id bin Jubayr and Al-Hasan Al-Basri said: فَلَوْلاَ إِن كُنتُمْ غَيْرَ مَدِينِينَ ( Then why do you not -- if you are not Madinin.
.. ), "If you do not believe that you will be reckoned, recompensed, resurrected and punished, then why do you not return this soul to its body" Mujahid said that, غَيْرَ مَدِينِينَ ( ...if you are not Madinin ), means, "if you are not certain."

When the Soul reaches the Throat at the Time of Death, it cannot be brought back; this proves Reckon Allah the Exalted said, فَلَوْلاَ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ( Then why do you not (intervene ) when it reaches), in reference to the soul, الْحُلْقُومَ ( Al-Hulqum ), i.e., the throat, at the time of death.
Allah the Exalted said in other Ayat, كَلاَّ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ التَّرَاقِىَ - وَقِيلَ مَنْ رَاقٍ - وَظَنَّ أَنَّهُ الْفِرَاقُ - وَالْتَفَّتِ السَّاقُ بِالسَّاقِ - إِلَى رَبِّكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ الْمَسَاقُ ( Nay, when (the soul ) reaches to the collar bone, and it will be said: "Who can cure him ( and save him from death )" And he will conclude that it was ( the time ) of parting ( death ); And one leg will be joined with another leg ( shrouded ).
The drive will be on that Day to your Lord ( Allah ).)( 75:26-30 ) Allah said here, وَأَنتُمْ حِينَئِذٍ تَنظُرُونَ ( And you at the moment are looking, ) at the dying person and witnessing the stupor of death that he is experiencing, وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنكُمْ ( But We are nearer to him than you, ) with Our angels, وَلَـكِن لاَّ تُبْصِرُونَ ( but you see not. ) you cannot see the angels.
Allah the Exalted said in another Ayah, وَهُوَ الْقَاهِرُ فَوْقَ عِبَادِهِ وَيُرْسِلُ عَلَيْكُم حَفَظَةً حَتَّى إِذَا جَآءَ أَحَدَكُمُ الْمَوْتُ تَوَفَّتْهُ رُسُلُنَا وَهُمْ لاَ يُفَرِّطُونَ - ثُمَّ رُدُّواْ إِلَى اللَّهِ مَوْلَـهُمُ الْحَقِّ أَلاَ لَهُ الْحُكْمُ وَهُوَ أَسْرَعُ الْحَـسِبِينَ ( He is the Irresistible over His servants, and He sends guardians (angels ) over you, until when death approaches one of you, Our messengers ( angel of death and his assistants ) take his soul, and they never neglect their duty.
Then they are returned to Allah, their true Protector.
Surely, for Him is the judgement and He is the swiftest in taking account.)( 6:61-62 ) Allah's statement, فَلَوْلاَ إِن كُنتُمْ غَيْرَ مَدِينِينَ تَرْجِعُونَهَآ ( Then why do you not -- if you are not Madinin -- return the soul, ) means, `Will you not return this soul, that has reached the throat, to its body as it used to be, if you are exempt from the reckoning and recompense' Sa`id bin Jubayr and Al-Hasan Al-Basri said: فَلَوْلاَ إِن كُنتُمْ غَيْرَ مَدِينِينَ ( Then why do you not -- if you are not Madinin.
.. ), "If you do not believe that you will be reckoned, recompensed, resurrected and punished, then why do you not return this soul to its body" Mujahid said that, غَيْرَ مَدِينِينَ ( ...if you are not Madinin ), means, "if you are not certain."

( Do ye not force it back ) force the soul back to the body, ( if ye are truthful ) that you are not legally bound?

Bring back the soul (to its body), if you are truthful?

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