Are We Really Going to be Resurrected after Death?

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Issues around death and resurrection aren’t alien in ancient scriptures. In recent times, we’ve found people who doubt the ability of God being Able to give life back to the dead just the same way He revives a barren land to vegetation. The question is: would we brought back to life after we die? The Qur’an responds to this question explicitly with an entire chapter, and this is what we shall benefit each other with today. Read and ponder over these verses of Suratul Qiyamah — Qur’an 75:1–40.

In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful

1. I swear by the Day of Resurrection
2. And I swear by the self-reproaching soul
3. Does man think that We will never reassemble his bones
4. Why (can We) not (do so), while We are able to reset (even) his fingertips perfectly?
5. But man wishes to go on violating Allah’s injunctions (even in future) ahead of him.
6. He asks, “When will be this Day of Resurrection?”
7. So, when the eyes will be dazzled
8. The moon will lose its light
9. And the sun and the moon will be joined together
10. On that day man will say, “Where to escape?”
11. Never! There will be no refuge at all.
12. On that day, towards your Lord will be the destination (of everyone.
13. Man will be informed of what he sent ahead and what he left behind.
14. Rather, man will be a witness against himself
15. Even though he may offer his excuses.
16. (O Prophet,) do not move your tongue (during revelation) for (reciting) it (the Quran) to receive it in a hurry.
17. It is surely undertaken by Us to store it (in your heart), and to let it be recited (by you after revelation is completed).
18. Therefore, when it is recited by Us (through the angel), follow its recitation (by the concentration of your heart).
19. Then, it is undertaken by Us to explain it.
20. Never, (your denial of Resurrection is never based on any sound reason!) Instead, you love that which is immediate
21. And neglect the Hereafter.
22. Many faces, that day, will be glowing
23. Looking towards their Lord
24. And many faces, that day, will be gloomy
25. Realizing that a back-breaking calamity is going to be afflicted on them.
26. Never, (you will never remain in this world forever!) When the soul (of a patient) reaches the clavicles
27. And it is said, “Who is an enchanter (that can save him?)”
28. And he realizes that it is (the time of) departure (from the world)
29. And one shank is intertwined with the other shank
30. Then on that day, it is to your Lord that one has to be driven.
31. So (the denier of the Hereafter) neither believed nor prayed
32. But rejected the truth and turned away (from it)
33. Then he went to his home, puffed up with pride.
34. (It will be said to such a man,) Woe to you, then woe to you!
35. Again, woe to you, then woe to you!
36. Does man presume that he will be left unchecked?
37. Was he not an ejaculated drop of semen?
38. Then he became a clot of blood, then He created (him) and made (him) perfect,
39. And made from him two kinds, male and female.
40. Has He no power to give life to the dead?

Indeed! These are words of reflection for people of intellect.

Yaumul Arba’ 17th Ramadan 1440H // Wednesday 22nd May 2019.